More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.