The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.

We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

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.