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You’re trying to just leave the world a little better.

We must not allow our elected officials -many beholden to unaccountable corporate elites- to bastardize and pulverize the precious word democracy as they fail to respect and act on genuine democratic ideals.

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can’t talk about a socialist revolution.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

Where there is no vital community to hold up precious ethical and religious ideals, there can be no coming to a moral commitment – only personal accomplishment is applauded.

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

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

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

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

To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation.

Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don’t think that the words are necessarily nullified. It’s just that that context is something you ought to be suspicious of.

You’re going to end up with a government in Egypt that is concerned about the precious Palestinians, the same way we ought to be concerned about both precious Palestinians and precious Jews.

We are witnessing a rebellion. It’s beautiful to see the qty of protests and the scope and breadth of all colors, all genders, all sexual orientations, all ethnicities and all religious identities in the USA.

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.

I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

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

We are a democracy and we don’t believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That’s what democracies do.

To be humble is to be so sure of one’s self and one’s mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one’s self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others – especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.

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

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.

I’m a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.

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

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

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

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate consumption, especially strategies aimed at American youth that project sexual activity as instant fulfillment and violence as the locus of machismo identity. This market activity has contributed greatly to the disorientation and confusion of American youth, and those with less education and fewer opportunities bear the brunt of this cultural chaos.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

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

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

Anytime two human beings find genuine pleasure, joy, and love, the stars smile and the universe is enriched.

The political triumph of Donald Trump is a symbol and symptom – not cause or origin – of our imperial meltdown. Trump is neither alien nor extraneous to American culture and history. In fact, he is as American as apple pie. Yet he is a sign of our spiritual bankruptcy – all spectacle and no substance, all narcissism and no empathy, all appetite and greed and no wisdom and maturity.

There is no organizations and institutions that are worthwhile in terms of fighting for and dying for unless there is some individual integrity and character and virtue that is at work within various individuals in those institutions especially their leaders.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. – Aristotle.

We’ve got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

If we can’t get back to principles and integrity and it’s reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

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

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

And when I talk about love, I’m talking about something that’s great, though, brother. I’m talking about something that will sustain you.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

Racial reasoning conceals these presuppositions behind a deceptive cloak of racial consensus – yet racial reasoning is seductive because it invokes an undeniable history of racial abuse and racial struggle.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.

If you can’t have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America – even though the white press attempted to do so.

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

It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.

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

I would say you have to fight in the life of the mind as well as fight in the streets, as well as fight in the courts, as well as fight in congress and the White House. Every site is a sight of contestation.

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

I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.

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