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Truth is fine. Absolutely.
Education is soul crafting.
Context shapes who you are.
Optimism is evidence-based.
Jesus loves a free black man.
Wealth inequality has increased.
All you have is a gift a to give.
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.
Wall Street is stronger than ever.
Interrogate yours hidden assumptions
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
Justice is what love looks like in public.
You can't move forward until you look back.
We are who we are because somebody loved us.
Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.
To be human you must bear witness to justice.
The problem is we need much more moral content.
Black people have been working hard for decades.
I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.
I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope.
We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.
You're trying to just leave the world a little better.
Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth
I'm an old Coltrane disciple just like I'm a Christian.
You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.
When black America is on the move, America is on the move.
Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.
It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering
Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.
Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.
The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.
The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.
It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.
There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama.
You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.
The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.