If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

I had to steal to survive.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating.