Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.

I think if you can create a meaningful thing that is also an advertisement that's a pretty cool option for brands.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.