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

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.

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

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

African-American people adore President Obama.

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