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

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.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.

We need to make some real fundamental change from the Constitution down in this country.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin.

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

We’re not anti-police… we’re anti-police brutality.

You and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.

We don’t owe America anything – America owes us.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways.

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET.

I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

It’s cool to be able to dunk. I’m pretty tall and pretty long. My body’s probably built more for basketball than for golf.

As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.

I’m not scared of Tiger. I’m not scared to go head-to-head. I’m not scared to have a long-drive contest with him.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.