I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

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.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.