Of all the harmful myths we’re fed, one of the most insidious is the belief that longing for love is a weakness. I disagree. Longing for love is not weakness. It’s wisdom. Numbing our loneliness is a path to a despair that plagues our entire culture. We are not meant to be alone and self-sufficient. Without lives filled with love, we wither inside. Intimacy is oxygen. We don’t need to transcend our hunger for love – we need to honor it.

For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, ‘Oh, it’s OK.’ But when you’re black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.

the mayor's doing what he should be doing with that, explaining himself.

For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.

The Confederate flag represents the same thing to blacks as the Nazi flag represents to Jews,.

They were very general meetings; we discussed all kinds of things, covered the whole gamut, ... They were very good meetings with him.

There's been concerns with jobs, ... It's not that it's one person. It's that everyone buys into it and becomes comfortable in it. Sometimes people don't realize they've done that until someone brings it to their attention.

He's going to have to come out and discuss it, ... There's a lot in that deposition.

The only flag that should be waving out there, that big and everything, is Old Glory,

Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.