People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

If there is no kindness with your rightness, then that is madness.

It was never just about the money.

I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

I did Popeye and Ronald Reagan and everybody was saying things like "yeah he's a cute little kid" but I started, little by little, telling stories about people I'd met and expanded my voices.

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

You could love me or hate me I swear it won't make me or break me. I'm goin where ever the money takes me.

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.