"I'm a bluesman in the academy. I sing the blues, but I do it with footnotes."

"I'm a spiritual warrior. I'm fighting for truth, justice, and love."

"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."

"To be a Christian is to be an underdog, a subversive, a revolutionary, a troublemaker."

"We're beings toward death, we're featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That's u…"