Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don't have to denigrate others.

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.

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

How can I possibly find the right one, if the one that I have right now couldn't let me go?

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

All of my scenes were with Jason Isaacs. I could definitely see myself going on an adventure with him, and learning as an actor from him.

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

It's always easier in the Senate minority to maintain unity.

Athletics have become professionalized.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.