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.

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.

[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].

In a way, it was the same as any normal break up. You took what was yours …. and I kept what I’d had from before we were together…You took my heart …. and I had nothing…

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well, " I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

It’s simple my heart is made from love and love will always beat hate any day and anywhere! No amount of evil can ever conquer me.

Fill yourself with love and happiness, but never give up the desire to love more.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.

They make a desert and call it peace.