I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.

I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.

How do you make things fair?

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.