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

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

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