America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

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.

Why are we so unconcerned with the great desire of God’s heart?

Finding one’s voice is a process of finding one’s passion.

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School - but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.

There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.