“So (if) some cracker come and tell you ‘Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket.”

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

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

Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.

And that will mean that we cast aside eight years of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that have gone into bringing cities and mayors and communities to the table to address what truly is a national crisis.

When you’re dealing with boycotts, you don’t need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

It is time to bring down the volume and bring up the program.

Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

We blacks had problems in the ’60s and we solved them by marching. We’ve still got problems – let’s march.

It does not appear, nor is there any reason to believe that [ Jeff Sessions] will put policing reform front and center in the way that this justice department has.

I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don’t be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,

I’m a patriot in the truest sense of the word.

I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

The Democratic Party hasn’t whipped anybody into a frenzy.

I always said what I thought and I didn’t hold anything back.

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn’t for the authorities, I’d go back.

Looking back on all the things I went through to get here. It was all worth it. It’s a blessing that I can write about it all.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

I’m so glad to be back in New York. Los Angeles can be so cold, so cruel after you’ve been-what’s the word?-oh yes: ‘fired.’

It takes a lot more than ability to run fast; it takes the ability to keep coming back and coming back.

Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.

Justice is only achieved in beautiful fullness when the oppressed has been elevated back to their rightful place, and when those who were guilty of the oppressing have experienced repentance, healing, and restoration as well.