Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The business class is combined with the evangelicals. And I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ. So they are very happy about what we're doing to Iraq - and the menace we present now for Syria and for Iran - because they think that the apocalypse is an important thing to get into so that they can see vindicated their most literal interpretation of the Bible.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.