People need their history like they need air and food.

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.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

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.

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.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery. 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.

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