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.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

I had to steal to survive.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

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

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.