In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

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.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.