When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.
We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols – when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action – they are sending messages more profound their language.
The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana’s political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state – this is a rainbow state.
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation’s capital just as well.
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
No lie can live forever.
Capitalism without capital is just an ism.
I want to cut his nuts off.
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can’t read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
If I can make it, you can make it.
The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.
Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God’s children.
I want to make America better!
If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.
If you don’t feel apologetic for slavery, if you don’t feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.