I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Education is soul crafting.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.