Terrorism is not new to black people.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.