I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

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.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.