To be a Negro in America is to be in a constant state of rage.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
"The Middle East is not just a geography, it's an open wound in the body of history that keeps bleeding stories."
"Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm."