All you have is a gift a to give.

I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)