So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

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.

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

Tantric Zen is a state of mind

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.

Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

The proud man is forsaken of God.

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

Fear is what inhibits us moving forward.

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.