Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.

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.

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

My greatest privilege is being married to a gentle loving husband. I am very grateful God made our path cross.

When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Be a tough-minded optimist.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.

God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.