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

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

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.