So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.

While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

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

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

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.