The first black president will be a politician who is black.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

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.

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