“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”

"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..."

"That's just how white folks will do you."

 "I can no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I can disown the black community."

"Trayvon Martin could have been my son."