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

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching, if we kept on voting, if we kept on believing, we would make America beautiful for everybody.

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.

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.

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.