If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

We just have to hope and pray that this man [Donald Trump] is changed in terms of how he views the world community.

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has, and that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.