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

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.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.

Coming down the 18th, your heart’s pounding, and the hair is sticking straight up on your arms – there’s no feeling like it.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.