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

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 think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice.

People have a right to be nervous and fearful. They heard what Trump said during the campaign and are wondering if he`ll follow through on his promises.

I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city.

I need to hear something about how he`s going to bring people together in the spirit, hopefully, of Martin Luther King Jr., and if that`s not heard, then we`ve got to constantly challenge him.

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.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 911, at all until the time felt right but that wasn’t an option.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

I’m taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then – now [I’m] a completely different person.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

There’s no reason to hold yourself back and say you can’t do something in life unless you go for it and try to do it.