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Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th - he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.