We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

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

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.

Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.