I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

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 sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish it I immediately put it aside and move on to the next project.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

I don't believe you can buy style. Money won't make you look good.

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

Since I started in motor racing I've worked with people from all over the world. We are all here to go racing and prejudice will never play any part in that.

Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

When you wish #‎ good for others, good things come back to you.

I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion'. I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.