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

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].

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.

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].

Don’t neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win.

There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit.

He was a poet

Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

Just because we can think does not mean we are separate from everything.

I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

A Hospital isn't any place to end up being sick.

From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.

I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.