The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

racism is alive and doing too well in America.

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.

In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

All you need is time... and you have it... NOW

When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

This many-headed monster, Multitude.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that.