You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.

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

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.