A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them.

It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.