Politicians refuse to modernize schools, they cut out midnight basketball, but build all these new jails. First class jails, second class schools. This is zero tolerance.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.