I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.

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 feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have.

Those who are content have enough; those that complain, have too much.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

I made a nuclear reactor when I was 14