Tony Morrison said, 'Can't I love what I criticize, criticize what I love.'

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.

Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell.

Truth seeks light, lies seek shadows.

Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.

Conversation can be a learning experience for everyone. I never hesitate to reach out when I'm in over my head, and I'll never hesitate to return the favor.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.