If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.