People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.