You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

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.

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

Technology allows more people to tell more stories in more ways. Storytelling knows no boundaries. I believe print and web can work beautifully together.

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

I guess the issue for me is to keep things dynamic.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

I love the interrelatedness of things.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.