There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Effective action is always unjust.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?