Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Capitalism without capital is just an ism.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.