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."

I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.

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.

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

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

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

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.