Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

Race designation is a political designation.

When I was a boy we were poor and we had to make do with what we had. So my grandma used to make us quits that we used for blankets. She couldn't afford to go to the store and buy a blanket -- so she'd take scraps of cloth and sew them together. there'd be different colors and different patterns and different types of cloth -- but they all went together to make that big quilt to keep us warm.

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose.