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

But we believed if we kept on working, if we kept on marching,

I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.

I disagree with Muhammad. I’m against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.

It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can’t grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

There are white n*ggers. I’ve seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

We’ve got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

I can’t see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

The assumption is that the people that are marching and protesting and standing up against this don’t have enough sense to stand up for their own interests.

What’s wrong with denouncing white interlopers?

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

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.

No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.