The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.

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.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.