Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.