We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

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.

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

But we live in a karaoke society... Many people feel they have to dance to someone else's tune, to sing someone else's song.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

You always have access to your truth. You always have access to the divine feminine.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

I look down at our linked fingers as I loosen my grasp, but he regains his grip on me. “No, don’t let go of me,” he says.