I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

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

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.