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.

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

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.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.