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

"The American dream is really a nightmare for most people."

"Neoliberalism is the new Jim Crow."

"The political triumph of Donald Trump is a symbol and symptom—not cause or origin—of our imperial meltdown."

"The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. But it doesn't bend on its own."