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.

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

[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.

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].

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?” “Mmm, ” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?

I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA.

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

For he that is delighted by concord, And who abideth in the Law, Falleth not from Security.

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.