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.

The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.

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

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

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