I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

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 need only you, Milano, not your money.

If you can think independently, you are the master of this universe.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

I'm a big comedy fan, and a fan of films.

The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.