Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments.

I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I know it's bad news. I know that there has been a shooting.

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

I think the most critical needs of the African-American communities aren't being addressed primarily because of decisions being made by Republican Congressional leaders.

It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.

Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you.

...consciousness is a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.