I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

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.

Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Your subconscious mind is the universal mind with a universal consciousness.

People go to the movies to have an emotional experience, not to learn information they could look up on Wikipedia.

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

Take the gentle path.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

Best feelings are when you dare to say words to someone you love.

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.