There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.