It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

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.

Life is brighter than we think and better as we are. We just need to open our eyes and follow our heart.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.