I've seen too much in life to give up.

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.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

This is the time to rise up and design(customize) your life.

I'm not alone, " said the boy. "I've got a puppy.

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

I have to laugh at myself.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.

Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!