Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.