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 do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

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.

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

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

John Lewis being attacked as "talk, talk, talk" by president-elect [Donald] Trump because he said he didn`t consider him a legitimate president.

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.