Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.

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.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.

We can't control what people do or say, even if it's dumb.

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.