My father. . . was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires. . . We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. . . we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
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.
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr. , esquire.
I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better. We always think that present times is terrible, that what's happening today, it was never worse, that the world is going in the most awful direction. But I think that the world that my grandchildren will have will be better than the one I had when I turned 20.
Honor does not have to be defended.
I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college, I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn't performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.