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

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

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.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.