I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.

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.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."

Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

I'd love to have a shitty job. I couldn't hold any down. Standup was the only thing I could stick with. I'm an idiot that way.

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.