It's not enough to be against something.

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.

Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to findthat their wives do have sense?""Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.

Your guess is as good as mine.

What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.

I have been searching for time past all my life.

The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."