Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.

For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I've really done something.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

[In a blogosphere] everybody has an opinion now, but I don't really freaking care about - all opinions ain't created equal, because everybody can go out there and express themselves and hide behind some character we don't know who you really are, a bunch of cowards.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.