I`m very cautious and very concerned about what I have initially seen, but I also believe we`ve got to organize like we have never organized before.We talk about it, but realistically, we`ve got to organize at the grassroots level.

As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

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