It takes a real designer to design for real women.

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

My job is to bring the tickle. I know what's funny.

I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.

You have to always keep conditioning. My coach used to say, "You play like you practice." If you practice s - -ty, you're going to play s - -ty.

I'm not leaving America because it doesn't support me.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd Please daily, and whose novelty survives Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years.