"If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can't respond, you go under."

"The struggle for truth and justice is a never-ending journey."

"I'm a public intellectual, but I'm also a street intellectual. I'm rooted in the streets, in the hood, with the people."

"I'm a revolutionary Christian, a non-Marxist socialist, and a jazz-loving bluesman."

"To be a serious intellectual is to be a serious moral agent."