"The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion."

"I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context."

"I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things."

"You would think that a country that goes to war allegedly to spread democracy would practice it in its own country."

"I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century."

"Wisdom principle 36 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 20."

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

"I'm the king of brownie sundaes!"