We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

A societies needs determines their ethics

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.