If you're a black kid, you're going to have hell in your life.

When you hear someone delivering a divisive message, that's endangering our country that you stay up and say, you know, as an American, I do not think what you're saying is good and right. And if you do in a peaceful manner, you have every right.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

In other words, United States, our values, the way that we occupy ourselves in terms of saying here's the way we stand in this country when we go to war, it's not that we go in and we kill off anybody, including families. We don't take the riches. We don't claim the women. My God, that's not America.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.