People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

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.

There is a level of positive anger that needed to be alive and to make a head way in this life.

Every beginning is a new challenge. I welcome the challenges

The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

Lying - remembering beauty in truth.

I dont know if im running because i'm scared or if i'm scared because i'm running.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.

Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.