My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my money, King is the greatest American we have ever produced. His only weapon was love. He transforms a nation, transforms the world with one weapon and that of course being again the weapon of love. So that for me, King is the quintessential example of everything that I could ever want to be in my lifetime.

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

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

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we're really - that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.