Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.