A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

The interesting thing for me is, if that had been a left-wing person raising questions, [President Obama] probably would have expressed his anger. Because Obama really does get upset about progressives.

Black people have been working hard for decades.