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.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

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

Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.

Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.