You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.

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

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.

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

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.