I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

White people scare the crap out of me.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

We as Americans believe it’s OK to kill people. We believe it’s OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it’s OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he’s in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty, we sanction it.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.