I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.