"I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'"

"We need to recover the best of the American democratic tradition, which is a tradition of dissent, of protest, of resistance."

"I'm a radical Christian who believes in the revolutionary power of the gospel."

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

"The greatest weapon against injustice is organized love."