"We've got to get beyond the ways in which the political system has been colonized by corporate wealth and by monied elite."

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

"I'm a bluesman in the academy. I sing the blues, but I do it with footnotes."

"The love that we need is a love that's willing to suffer, a love that's willing to sacrifice, a love that's willing to go to jail."

"The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak."