I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

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

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

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

We`re going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.

I think everybody understood what happened, why this consent decree came about after the Freddie Gray situation. There was tension on both sides.