"Obama posed as progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency."

"Love is not a sentiment. It's a verb. It's an action."

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

"If the only alternative to fascism we produce is a corporate-driven, milquetoast, neoliberal Democratic Party, fascism will come to America. Let us be very clear. It's like a Weimar America."

"At our best. Now, I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else. [laughs] But oh, Lord, we got some great ones."