Some issues you just - you certainly you have to defend yourself, but you certainly don`t have to denigrate others.

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.

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

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

It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.

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

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.