The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

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

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

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.