I'm trying to educate people about things that I believe are right, and some of the things that I believe are right might not be right, so I live in constant self-doubt. I think that creates a kind of search that you have to have, and it prevents you from doing a lot of stuff that you would normally do.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

The black church will accept anybody.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

So sweet and precious is family life.

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.