We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."

In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.

Look for the beauty in things.