When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

I am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.