People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

Sometimes, I repeat myself, and that was a second elimination [of Barack Obama]. I worked with a team, including a great editor who, as the project came together, suggested other additions and eliminations. It was a process.

He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.