Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.

It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

Use those brains that God put in your head.

The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of.

No. What part of ‘no charity’ have you missed?” – Cherise ‘The part that said he couldn’t eat.’ – Nick

The people of this country want an industrial policy that is for America and Americans.