“Commencement is about the students and their successes, and it is not about me.”

“If America don’t come around, we’re gonna burn it down.”

“The very people who love to talk about tolerance are some of the least tolerant people there are.”

“My poorly chosen words caused pain for some members of our community.”

“If anyone was offended, I apologize to you.”

“Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts, they don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.”

“As for politics, he said, ‘I would like to have a voice.’”

“The perfect movie for a country challenged by its new president to do better.”

“So many more things that can be done.”

“If God is for you who can be against you?”

“I don’t use teleprompters.”

“It’s unbelievable to me the way people act like third graders.”

Once upon a time, America was called the “Land of Opportunity.” It was never called the “Land of Guaranteed Success.”

“I’m somewhat disappointed that more African Americans don’t kind of think for themselves and [that they] just kind of go with whatever they’re supposed to say and think.”

“…we cannot continue to go on believing that all we can do is ask the president what his favorite color is and continue to have these softball interviews.”​

​”What we need to do is we need to be able to discuss intelligent ways of solving the multitude of problems that threatens to destroy our nation.”