Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

A good dancer changes the way dancing was thought after he left the floor.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Steak is delicious and cows are stupid.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

Time is a person-made concept.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.