Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?.

Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside and live and go and so….

I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, a….

Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were very much of the church and caught in it….

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

Poverty continues to exist. Its appearance seems to be relentless in evidencing itself not only to all the things we experience here in America, but ….

Children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS are not only just as deserving of an education as any other children, but they may need that education eve….

I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I’….

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy..

Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we have now. It's one thing f….

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel..

The Catholic Church had strict racial attitudes and intolerance for anybody who was not Catholic. When I look at a lot of Black ministers and what we….

I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled here. Although oppression was c….

We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to be paid for it ….

To really know what progress we’re making for children, we have to know how many children we have to begin with. The simple act of counting is an exp….

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming roun….

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

When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those….