As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

When the heart is right, the mind and the body will follow.

You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.

Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.