The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

First and foremost, that I will, obviously, be the president of all the people, as opposed to one segment. When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.