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

I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.