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.

Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him.

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

References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.