I've always said that I was an activist before I became a celebrity.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river

I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it