Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

I like what they're doing. I think they're doing a good job, and I know that a lot of people are upset by them. These are great young men and women, and they're bold, and they are saying to America, "Something's going to change." I'm very proud of them.

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'