Jesus loves a free black man.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.

Evolution of belief systems and issues of control? If something is worth believing in, it is timeless.

Luxury is a word of uncertain signification, and may be taken in a good as in a bad sense

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

I think now the trace of egotism may have been the beginning of all his troubles

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.