People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.