In order for an ideal to become a reality, there must be a person, a personality to translate it.

His [Donald Trump] urban policy is stop and frisk, law and order. And we need investment and development.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food stamps.

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.