I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

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.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Oh No! My wings are effed up!

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

I've got a bit of Scottish Blood... On my kitchen knife!!

It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.