Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.