We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.

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.

People who want to sit around, star gaze and talk about their dreams are my favourite kind of people.

It is in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the DEBT and the INTEREST!

Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the sane lie a dreaming?

Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Love is eternal while it lasts.