Not only will your teachers appear, but they will cook new foods for you.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.