We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

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.

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.

The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.