Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.