There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.