I'm so thankful a significant majority of Americans are saying no to military intervention. We've got to find a solution that will in the end be one that makes Syria a better country, a better people.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.