On the track, you're Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you're in the dressing rooms, you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments.

Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.

I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I know it's bad news. I know that there has been a shooting.

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

In the middle of all the ordinary--something extraordinary shows up.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty.

People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.