I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder