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.

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

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.