Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country could be organized, how politics could be organized.

Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention.

Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily.

Lecturing is an art. A good lecturer is an artist who understands the art.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.