Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

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.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Do you come here often?"..."Often enough, but I've never sat across from such a beautiful woman before.

It matters not what you fight but what you fight for.

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

I'm an eight hours kind of sleeper, so I definitely try to schedule that in.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

Life dosent frighten me at all.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.