If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

If I can make it, you can make it.