My personal assessment is that Dr. King is the greatest American we have ever produced. I can argue for Lincoln, I can argue for FDR, but for my mone….

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own..

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection..

Loving your enemy is a radical concept..

Losing teaches you something.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement..

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child..

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school..

Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you….

I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperati….

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't e….

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have ….

I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you g….

Sometimes even your friends don't understand your calling, your purpose, your vocation. But you have to stand in your truth anyway, and they will eve….

I don't think I'd live anything over, even though I've made a lot of mistakes. I have learned how to see failure as a friend. So, I'm not one to live….

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better..

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic i….

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority..

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave..

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change..

Why don't we scale up those things that do work..