I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

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.

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

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

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