Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

As long as I dream, that is enough for me to keep moving forward.

Horses ... horses made me happy, complete. Then and there in the middle of some state, in a wild state of being, I vowed I would own a horse again.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

Dear world, I am leaving because I am bored.

I want to be a diva... like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around.

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.

Music is the only thing in the world that can block out madness, and can be consumed in the sadness, for it helps the soul survive even if only for a short time.