Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

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.

I would walk the way and accept the risks I have counted, rather accepting my failure.

What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world but all you received were the skies.

Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

For me winning isn't surprising at all

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.

I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"

The source that creates worlds always is creating and loving, and it excludes no one. It is a source of unlimited abundance. It is a source that has no judgment.