Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.