I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

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.

There are no unresourceful people, only those who choose not to care about the results.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said: so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below

We'd record a song that people liked and wanted to hear on the radio, and the radio wouldn't play it because it was too long. Or they wanted to edit it, which we wouldn't allow.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.

In fact although I have studied in a Conservatory the classical piano, I do not consider myself a classical pianist.