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I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

I think that N.W.A. picked up where Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King would have gone if they hadn't been assassinated.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.