"To be a serious intellectual is to be a serious moral agent."

"To be a revolutionary is to be a person of integrity."

"I am a bluesman in the academy, a jazzman in the church, a funkster in the ivory tower."

"To be a Christian is to be a follower of the historical Jesus, who was a revolutionary Jew."

"I'm a jazz freedom fighter, and I believe in the power of improvisation and the blues as a way of life."