There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

I am on a mission, I will depend on a greater power to accomplish the task.

You can exercise your authority as abeliever because you are seated with Jesus in the heavenly places.

While we live let us live.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.

Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.

All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.

I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.

Good luck tended to avoid me.