I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

I wish I could hold you, " she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!

This place is just a trailer for a film, Brandon. Our lives here. Heaven is like the movie. Except there’s only one trailer before the movie. And the movie won’t ever end.

I am certain that I’m not the only one who would like to have a do-over on an interaction with a loved one.

Love is ease.

Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history.

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster.

I know him. He's a hot chilli pepper, just like me! (on Valeri Bojinov)

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.