If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods.

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.