Bigotry is surely an exportable American commodity, especially when it comes to race.

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.

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.

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.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck... maybe I'll play a superhero.

For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career.

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb.