The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.