If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

Jesus Christ is the Son of Man.

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

Why is it every time a madman's prayers are answered, a witch burns?

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.

I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

I write what I see and whatever inspires me. The energy the earth gives me, what's on my mind, or what's in my heart becomes part of the lyrical content.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.