President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

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 will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul

When you fight with God, your warring against your pride.

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody.

No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.