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Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

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

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.

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

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

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

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

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

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

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

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

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

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

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