When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

Im very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair.

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

And I'd pray for them. And I'd imagine peace they couldn't expect and couldn't account for descending on their illness or their quarreling or their dreams.

One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: What does this experience make possible?

Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.

Goodness will always win over evil, no matter how much the evil attempts to break you. More than that, you are never truly in darkness. Sometimes, all you need to do is turn on the light.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.