I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.