"Everybody's smiling while folks are getting crushed down here!"

"Keep track of your heartbreak, because that's where your humanity lies."

"We live in a moment in which there is a courage deficit. People want to be popular and comfortable. They don't have the courage to tell the truth."

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

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