I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.