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The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.

You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their own hearts.

I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.