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.

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

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual. And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

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

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

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.