These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children.

I am who I am despite what America has put before me. I am who I am despite the obstacles that we have all faced based upon race and based upon social and spiritual humiliation.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

Where is the raised voice of black America? Why are we mute?

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

Real-time marketing is not for everyone. To take advantage of it, you need to have a clear idea of what it is you want to achieve through it.

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.