Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.

I love you, America Singer. As long as I live, I'll love you." There was some deep emotion in his voice, and it caught me off guard. "I love you, Aspen. You'll always be my prince.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Seems like I'm in a dream. Prince dead at 57. There are no words to describe this loss.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Sometimes the greatest victories we can make for mankind are the victories we make over ourselves.