If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

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.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy, just tune in for a few minutes.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.

When you have a position, you put it on for a reason, and you've got to keep it until the reason no longer exists.