We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future.

Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine.

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.