We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world 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.

VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers.

A total commitment gives you the extra ounce of courage that it takes to win.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

Death augments distance and dulls the memory. Death reconciles.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.

Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.