The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.

I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare and the like, and didn't get to college until almost 21. That's when I officially got licensed and ordained, right after that.

Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

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.