All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly.

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

Abby could smell his hot breath in her face. It reeked like dead apples left to rot in the scorching summer sun.

Money is a means of exchange.

Don't let 'em see they killed you!

the lies of centuries, the lies of love, the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.

One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

I'm a Star Wars fanatic.

There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer.