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

I think that any time you look at the fact that boycotts have historically led to change, whatever temporary inconvenience there may be, it in the long run leads toward, in my opinion, a better change for everybody.

And we will ultimately become a stronger nation, but right now we are a divided nation.

I`m very cautious about what appears to be things put in place that will begin to roll back some of the progress that I believe we`ve made.

I’ve never seen an effective boycott that didn’t work.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.

Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.

Life is about not where you start, but where you’re going. That’s family values.

This is not about what party you’re part of. This is about right and wrong, … the conscience of this nation.

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

We cannot look at the Latino community and preach ‘one language.’ No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn’t mean anything.

Then I should be praised for it, and it’s more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets.

In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.

A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.

I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’

You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.