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

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.

Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.