I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

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

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

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

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis after Lewis said he did not see Trump as a legitimate president.

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom.