Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.