How do you make things fair?

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 knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

You know how that feels?

Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves