My vote is my secret.

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

Fundamental rights belong to the human being just because you are a human being.