We are the ones we've been waiting for.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.