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.

But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.

People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.

You get exactly what you want, Anatole’s always suspected, only when you get it it’s no longer what you want, you need something else.

The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.

When you are in your heart of hearts, you can see beyond appearances.

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.