I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.

He leaned his forehead against hers. “Tell me you want this.

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

A watered down gospel is no gospel at all

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

There's nothing wrong with saying, "I want to have more," "I want to be more," "I did this for money."