I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.