"Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom."

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

"Black people have been treated like property, like things, like commodities. And we've still got to love."

"To be a prophet is to be a truth-teller, to be a justice-seeker, and to be a love-practitioner."

"The greatest danger is not external enemies, but internal complicity."