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

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

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

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.

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.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

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.