African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of color, .. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation.

Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.

People want transparency in government.

The American people have a right to know that, when Donald Trump's making decisions, they are being made in their best interests without him lining his pockets.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

All you have to do is follow the money and if you follow the money, it leads right back to Donald Trump's pockets.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

The reason I got into acting was the audience is right there and if you did something great they were right there and you knew it.

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.