History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.
In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.
Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.
Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.
I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.
Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."
There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.
Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.
Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.
George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.
I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.
One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.
I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.
The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.
As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.
While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.
References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.
Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!
President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.
If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.
I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.
If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.
