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

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

I do believe that healing takes place on a number of different levels and that in fact black healing can be deepened by trying to heal across as well as within. But it could be that to call for black and Jewish healing without acknowledging the need for intra-black healing puts the cart before the horse.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

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.