Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.
The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.
We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.
The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless.
I am most alive when I let myself be touched by the fingers of life.
Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.
What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.
I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window; the music of a room full of people chatting; a horizon.
I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage.
It’s just an inch from me to you depending on what map you use.
Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?
We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.
But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see.
Show me one man who knows his own heart, to him I shall belong.
Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.
Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew.
It’s like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you’ll water your career or your relationship more.
Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet’s eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by.
Cynicism is for lightweights.
I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.