As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.