There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

Practiced poorly, tourism can be extremely negative.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave' you were a racist.

The 'Cheetah Generation' refers to the new and angry generation of young African graduates and professionals, who look at African issues and problems from a totally different and unique perspective.

We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?

If I was ever to ask advice, it could be from any actor or showrunner or writer. I wouldn't necessarily ask an animate. I don't want to say that the wrong way, but animation's not really my world.