I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.

We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.

If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.