The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are not as informed as journalists or professional thinkers - may get a bit, you know, impatient with the necessity of sustained thinking, sustained argumentation, sustained dialogue.

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

I don't worship the Bible, I worship the God who gave the Bible.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.