We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you.

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

I saw what it means to work every weekend and every night, and I realized it doesn't work for me. It's not necessary. If you know what you want, you can achieve it without going crazy.

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.

I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum.

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.

I want to be one of the best players in the game.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.