Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam. ”

When we filmed the premiere episode of 'United Shades of America,' it was like we were turning over a rock in the woods. The KKK was not part of the national conversation. They were really just a punchline for comedians when you needed to let the audience know something was really, really, really racist. ”

People live in their part of the Union, and if they don't travel a lot, then there is a tendency to believe that the other parts of America couldn't possibly be as American as their part. You can see it in the way people in the South scrunch up their faces when they hear words like 'New York,' 'Chicago,' and 'challah.' ”

I am proud to be black man. ”

I am a comedian: that means I laugh at things other people don't laugh at and also annoys my wife sometimes. ”

Atheism is like the highest level of white privilege. It's like having a black belt in white privilege. ”

Most people have the ability to turn their empathy engine back on, but there's such a seductive burn to not being empathetic. ”

Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.' ”

It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them. ”

It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men. ”