I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.

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.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

If a man achieves worldly success and does not blend into his life a program of self-improvement to bring about a sensible balance, he no doubt will end up as a failure.

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?