Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

You get out of hell one step at a time." -- Abbie Sullivan, "Cinderella Shoots the Moon.

Success is a process, not an event.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense I call it intelligence.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

All stress comes from resisting what is.