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

"The true measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable."

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

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

"The legacy of white supremacy is still alive and well in America."