I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

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.

Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive actions.

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

I don't think people should try to force their will on their family.

When you really look for me you will see me instantly.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

As long as I have that support from my team, and I have that confidence in myself that I train really hard, I think there's no one out there who can defeat me in my weight class.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Reality, like beauty, is in relationship and there only.