Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

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.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

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

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

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

We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

I try to keep an even keel.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.