Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .