We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

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.

I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

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