Chicago has been characterized as the most segregated city in the United States, a city they said could never change.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

Those who control life, and the bodies of women, control the money and hold the power. Women who are kept indoors, cannot make money and will not hold any power.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences.

I don't bring any ideology or barriers with me into my music.

The simplest aspect of self-enquiry is to just hold onto the sense I AM, the sense of Being. Keep the sense of "I" or "I AM" by itself. Everyone can do this exercise - it brings immediate results.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.