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

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

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

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

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.