I think that the over-incarceration of black and brown folk is one of the great crimes of American society.

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.

Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.

I yearned for the woman who could bring me to my knees then raise me up again, making me stronger than before.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.

When the earth is sick and polluted, human health is impossible.... To heal ourselves we must heal our planet, and to heal our planet we must heal ourselves.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.