It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

We won`t back down! We won`t be trumped!

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

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.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.