“I don’t think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.”

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.

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.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

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.

Things inspiring me – good melody, a great bass line, a fabulous voice… by which I mean someone who sounds great, rather than does pyrotechnics… and people playing really musically.

The thing that interests me far more than anything is creating music, songwriting and arranging, and in that context drumming itself is a means to an end.

I love playing. In lots of ways, I think having been able to carry on playing purely out of love rather than having to do it for a living means I still love the drums.

By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.

My spiritual life is… sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don’t. When I do have access to it, it’s usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do.