“Before my mother was a King, she was a gifted vocalist and musician, whose skill and academia garnered her a scholarship to the prestigious New England Conservatory for Music in Boston.”

My dad was one who – he was nonpartisan, first of all. He learned to work with whatever administration was in office.

In addition to needed gun control reforms, America urgently needs a stronger protest movement dedicated to reducing the glorification of violence in our culture – in music, film, television, video games, and even the Internet.

Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated that her gender would not deter her success, nor did it detract from her strength.

One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.

Every time I go to these racial forums, it is people who are alike, or it is progressives and liberals. So I said, ‘At some point, we’ve got to bring the progressives and the liberals and the conservatives together.’

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

When I think about some of the policies that we make in this country, the policies are so self-driven.

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we’re not careful, it’ll overtake us, and we’ll self-destruct.

Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.

My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.

Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I’ll be honest with you, I’m tired of putting stuff on the record. I’m ready to see some real transformation and change.

My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that’s my father.

What I’m trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, ‘We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we’re going to perish as fools.’

Occasionally, in the afternoons, I catch a movie, watch football, go to Sunday brunch, or visit with family and friends.

In addition to a stronger focus on better training for law enforcement, America urgently needs programs to provide jobs and educational opportunities in economically depressed communities.

Don’t be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.