God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding.

We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

There's the God within and the God without, and you have to attend to the alignment of the two of them.

You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist populist [Donald Trump] who is now in the White House with an authoritarian strongman who has no regard for facts, no regard for tradition, and no regard for the Constitution. That is what you get when you import third world conditions. You get third world politics, and that's where we are now.

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.