There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.

We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

I was very struck when Min. Farrakhan said if Jesus and Muhammad were here today, they'd be embracing each other. That's a tremendous message that needs to be heard more broadly.

Happiness is being emerged in thoughts of you.

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.

Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.