The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

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.

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.

But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.

I want God to be first in my life, so I’m putting Him first in my life today.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

When there are monsters there are miracles.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.