I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.

Resistance is the secret of joy!

I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.