My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stu….

I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my j….

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others..

We are not all the same; we don't think alike; and we have the right to openly express those differences in ways that, hopefully, will contribute to ….

I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself..

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his ….

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas..

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public..

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate..

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible..

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism..

Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal….

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me..

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the les….

Social media itself is not protest. To tweet is not to protest physically. To do a Facebook post, and though it's critical and crucial, is not to sho….

Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its ex….

If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as your experiences a….

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us..

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. ….

Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sist….

I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American societ….