It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger than before.

Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection.

Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!

i never begin my writings with talent. i begin them with strong emotions and liquor. they finish with talent.

Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year. Like, this time, it's on December 25th.

I work on weekends, but from home.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.