“All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.”

“I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.”

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”

“Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”

“The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislationto pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out,they're in that building. Just because we black,we get along with the killers? What is that?”

“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house.”