America can't work for only some people and become a dream for all people. It has to work for everyone. And even though everyone might not end up at the same place, if everyone starts with the same beginning, then that's the dream fulfilled. We all don't have the same abilities, but we should have the same opportunities.

How do you make things fair?

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.

We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.

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

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.