You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.

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.

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

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

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.