We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

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.

Loving your enemy is a radical concept.