Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.