Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

I ignore [Barack Obama] like I ignore [Louis ] Farrakhan.

When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of my father's assassination this year. So I am a diehard [Barack] Obama supporter.

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

Not all white people are bad.

We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it.

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School].

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Read to your children. Open their minds and fill them with imagination and wonder. Create Awesome by being awesome.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

If you want to grow in true wisdom, grow in a knowledge of the God of the Bible.

If you have any problems at all, don't hesitate to shut up.

Kenny Dalglish is a hero of mine and is the best player to ever wear a red shirt.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Today's decisions are tomorrow's realities.