If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

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.

To be able to convert time, you must be conscious of time.

For someone so intuitive, ” he said, shaking his head, “sometimes you only see what you expect to see.

Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back.

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

I don't understand why Christians are taking such a bashing...and why do we glorify people that do destructive things?

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.