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" 'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss. "

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" We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it. "

" More than anything, we must do better for our children's education. "

" I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am. "

" I thought that Donald Trump's ascendancy would end when he attacked John McCain, saying he's not a war hero. I found that shocking, for him to say that. "

" I have got the job of my dreams. "

" Do not forget from whence you've come. "

" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "

" Having people that really reflect the spectrum of American experiences is important to have on the Supreme Court. "

" People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world. "

" I debated between law school and divinity. "

" When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish. "

" If you grew up where I grew up, you would experience a very different criminal justice system than Camden, New Jersey. "

" There is too much disagreement for disagreement's sake. In a time of persistent challenges that still call into question our most sacred aspirations as a country, we cannot afford shallow callous divisiveness in our public debate. "

" Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity. "

" I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood. "

" Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth. "

" Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise. "

" The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health. "

" When people jump on your mistakes, don't hide from them; let people know that you're human, too. "

" I spent eight years living without heat and hot water. "

" In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them. "

" My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so. "

" Being vegan for me is a cleaner way of not participating in practices that don't align with my values. "

" I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy. "

" Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small - because remember it's the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains. "

" Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day. "

" I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive. "

" I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population. "

" My whole life has been about confronting cynicism. "

" We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done. "