There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

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.

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

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've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.