You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

People don't just show up and lie down in the middle of the street some place out of nothing. Somebody said meet me there, let's get together, and let's do this thing. The interesting thing is that we don't know who all of the leaders of these groups are, but we know that they're out there, and we know a new group of leadership is being created. It shows you that leadership can come from anywhere.

We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.