We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

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.

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.

[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].

When you‟re taught from birth that you don‟t matter in any way, that your wants and even needs are irrelevant, then of course you‟ll struggle to value yourself.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Chocolate just may be the healthiest thing you can put in your mouth.

Everyone has gifts; everyone can contribute.

Most people don't get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It's important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

Between loving friends there need be no secrets . . . the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.

In an athlete, it is not the legs that go first

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.