You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.

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 comforting word is a command from a man of action...While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words...

True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.

The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons.

Everything on the internet is real god damn it!

Big Sur is a fascinating place. It is one of the true power places in America.

You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.