I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I like America to some extent.

I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are.

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.