Without forgiveness, there's no future.

... freedom translates into having a supply of clean water, having electricity on tap; being able to live in a decent home and have a good job; to be able to send your children to school and to have accessible healthcare. I mean what's the point of having made this transition if the quality of life ... is not enhanced and improved? If not, the vote is useless.

Resentment and anger are bad for your blood pressure and your digestion.

And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be - eagles, not chickens.

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

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.