Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

That kind of peer learning, that peer teaching, that peer evaluation, and then administration of insight.

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

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.

Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.