Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.
The Bible is filled with intriguing stories about complex and flawed human beings who ponder immense moral questions and engage in colossal clashes with evil.
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.
It's easy to mock a man who has founded a religion based on John Coltrane, who considers 'A Love Supreme,' whatever its merits as a jazz album, to be holy scripture.
I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He's had many lives. My dad's a capitalist to his bone, but he's also a human to his bone.
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.
The one thing you learn is when you can step out of your comfort zone and be uncomfortable, you see what you're made of and who you are.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.
