I guess I'm a Luddite.

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.

In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning.

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.