Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were very much of the church and caught in it, and every time I turned to find where resides the good in the church, all I saw was the demonic, the Lucifer of the journey.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

When I go across the country, whether it's Albuquerque, New Mexico, whether it's Birmingham, Alabama or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there are always forces at play that I choose to relate to and extract inspiration from, and as long as they stay committed to the struggle against poverty, I find a role for myself.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?