President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and h….

It's important to keep the people who know you well around you. It helps center you..

I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you..

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live..

It is the least represented among us who will be the most affected first. We have a moral responsibility to protect them..

I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it..

One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know..

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem..

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out..

And it's not just black people. That's the other thing about this issue, it's conflated with just black and white and it's not that at all. It's dive….

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs..

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need ….

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always….

Every time I've learned something, I've realized there are a hundred more things I don't know about the thing I just learned..

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are..

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues th….

I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't..

I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?.

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whethe….

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and ge….

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the reall….