It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Don't be afraid of hard work.