Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.

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.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.