While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

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 remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

The unfortunate part is there`s not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.