My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Your ultimate goal for marriage is that both of you—as husband and wife—commit to keep growing spiritually.

The rich can be "eccentric " the poor have to be considered "nuts."

There comes a moment when you know you just aren't going to do anything esle productive for the rest of the day.-T-Shirt

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.

Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.