The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.