We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair, Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem From insignificance.