My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

This world is vast enough to handle anything you dare to dream.

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.

Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.

You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it…is it really yours?

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.