"I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, a jazzman in the world of ideas."

"Justice is not a thing, it's a practice."

"I'm a revolutionary Christian, a non-Marxist socialist, a prophetic pragmatist, and a Socratic gadfly."

"It's like a Weimar America."

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