Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.

My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.

Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.

I work with a lot of movie stars.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.