I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied..

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world..

You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see any….

Bush people didn't like him, and they never liked him. They didn't like him because they don't like democracy. They like you to have an election, but….

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is a….

One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to commun….

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come..

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all tha….

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal..

Where does a black soul go to rest?.

Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but le….

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all t….

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dan….

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that k….

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it..

Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes….

Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the ….

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ..

People need their history like they need air and food..

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We….

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. Y….