I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The in….

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President ….

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth ….

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other o….

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent..

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about..

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around..

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths..

You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you ….

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion..

I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most ….

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board..

I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been a….

Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected Presiden….

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scra….