Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

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.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

I love what I do and I am surrounded by some incredible people.