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

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Black people have been working hard for decades.