Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.
Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.
So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.
