Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

If you have, give. If you learn, teach.

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.