“We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn’t get the mule. So we decided we’d ride this donkey as far as it would take us.”

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.

Don’t talk to us like we ignint!

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.

The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.

The flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea at Acre is not similar to the flavour of a fish which comes out of the sea in Spain.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

To bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn … seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That’s where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts.