I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.

Today, all across this country there are going to be rallies led by Democrats and others to fight against the devastating impact of repeal of the Affordable Care Act. 20 million people thrown off of health insurance, prescription drug prices raising for seniors, privatization of Medicare: devastation. And we've got to fight back against that.

I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change