People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in 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.

Have faith in yourself. All the power is in your biology already. Be conscious of that power and bring it out. Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.

Don't get seduced by the next shiny thing, because you'll get caught up chasing shiny things and that will keep you from addressing what you really need to accomplish.

If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain't a good man!

There is just so very much I can't do. I don't drive, for one.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Go after what gives you goosebumps.

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well