Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression.

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

Turning against the church I also had to turn against a lot of the teachings of people in my family who were very much of the church and caught in it, and every time I turned to find where resides the good in the church, all I saw was the demonic, the Lucifer of the journey.

I like Colin Powell, I like his West Indian background, I like his intellect, I like a lot of things that he does and his style. What is at fault here is a policy that's taking this country to hell.

I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?