The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

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

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

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.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.