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

"I'm a blues philosopher, a jazz theologian, a hip-hop ethicist."

"The function of a prophet is to tell the truth in public, no matter the consequences."

"I'm a Socratic gadfly, a prophetic witness, and a blues-inflected intellectual."

"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."