Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Life is a weird place, what gonna happen next? No one knows it and nothing is guaranteed.

Seriously, what is the purpose? Maybe I’d feel better about walking around speaking fluent jive if I knew there was a reason for it.

The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

Completely dried up, They've become beans.

It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.