A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every one of us, in our own little comfortable ways, contributes daily to that destruction. It's time now to awaken in each one of us the respect and attention our beloved Mother deserves.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.