Keep your eye on the main event.

All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up.

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotions as men.

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is like shooting the breeze and having it shoot back.

If you're afraid to smile, you're afraid of life.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

In [my] youth I was smacked around.

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."