A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat.

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –

Your two guardian angels are always with you. The other angels come and go as we need them.

Stress is a form of suffering.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

I fiercely protect my privacy. I just don't think it's everyone's business to know every little detail about my life. That's just the way I've handled myself.

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.