My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

It's not enough to be against something.

White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all true and good. But it also suggests that there is an individual approach to the issues that many of these white people have taken up as a recognition of their tie to and responsibility for some of the inequities that exist. And I don't think it has to be an either-or. I think it has to be a bifocal approach.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.