If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.

What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

Rap un zeal' Demon within. I might as well put up a giant 'Come and Get Eaten' sign for the good those warning runes do.

The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

Katrina opened a good door and Al Gore went through it with his movie.

A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thought—what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.

Every man is his own worst enemy

I'm a substitute mom." "You're more like a crazy aunt who only gets called when somebody needs bailing out of jail.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

The resources of this earth are inexhaustible, because God made man's mind inexhaustible.