I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

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 those who are brainwashed and foolsbelieve in the existence of a god.Those who are indifferent just pretend.

Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.

There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Promise you'll think of me every second?

A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.