"Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of life. Hope is a verb, not a noun."

"A lot of folk who have lost faith in God it's a very healthy thing because the God they lost faith in was probably an idol anyway."

"Black people have been treated like property, like things, like commodities. And we've still got to love."

"To be truly free is to be able to say no to the powers that be."

"We are experiencing the sad gangsterization of America — an unbridled grasp at power, wealth and status."