It's a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

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.

It’s impossible, ” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that.

Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self?

Be abnormal

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.