You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

I would never teach a child of mine to be kind to a cop who would shoot you in the back of the head. I would never have that conversation because children don't hear what you mean, they hear what you say.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

The world is fed by greed.

A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!