John Lewis being attacked as "talk, talk, talk" by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn't consider him a legitimate president.

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.

I am compelled into this country.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

The great soul of this world is just.