The unfortunate part is there's not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

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.

Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.

The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me.

What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

You are a masterpiece of creation.

The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.