The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

I would encourage the people out in Chicago and all of us to continue to press for, that type of prosecutorial accountability.

Love is being honest with yourself at all timesbeing honest with the other person at all timestelling, listening, respecting the truthand never pretendingLove is the source of reality

The object of your desire is not an object.

I am not fake, I am just to good to be true :-)

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

Oh, I'm sorry," Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.