We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

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 live a happy life. Learn to let go of all that stresses you. You were never in control anyway.

Be with your loved ones and feed your soul with the deep connections that money can't buy. Your bank richness will never amount to the richness of love.

So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.

I think that sometimes I've been a little too nice. I think you have to have a balance. When you're too nice people take you for granted, they take you for a fool I think.

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your mind.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

It's up to history to judge.