“The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house.”

Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don`t want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.

When you look at some of the appointments, there`s great concern because does it really represent all the people, and somehow figuring out how to bring the nation together.

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

I’ve seen too much in life to give up.

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts.

Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior.

I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.

The icy rain did not deter us as we reminded Donald Trump and other leaders that we will not be silenced.

A jury said he wasn’t. So I have as much right to question a jury as they do. Does it make somebody a racist? No! They just disagreed with the jury. So did I.

Dr. King used Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

I haven’t done the things I’ve done to be in a sitcom.

I understand deficit spending. I was born in deficit spending.

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

That ain’t nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.

A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon.

On Saturday of MLK weekend, just days before the inauguration, thousands of people joined me in the nation`s capital to protect the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves.

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

We all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.