It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

The Scriptures are the pearls of great words.

Never apologize for correct actions.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

I'm a talker. I don't bottle things up. I always call my mum or a close girlfriend and try to talk things out.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.