On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

They say I need to learn, but nobody's here to teach me. If they don't understand, how can they reach me?

I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the streets.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Why are we so blind to see that the only ones we hurt are you and me?

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

Gather up your pity and turn it to ambition.

She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.

Education is a system. Learning is an ongoing every day process.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

When you are born, you cried while others laughed around you, likewise make others cry when you are dead.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.