What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

A girl's legs are her best friends...but even the best of friends must part.

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!

If you can see the handwriting on the wall... you're on the toilet.

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink or do drugs. Because someday they're going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won't know why.

I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.

We don't care about you.. we care who is behind you... so the idea is you to be the victim and we to catch the killer...

To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.

I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a result, I grew up with a good work ethic.

In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

I never say that evolution is a fact. Evolution is a theory. It's much more important than a fact, because theories explain things.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

I haven't exactly grown wings or anything. I'm happy with how I have been playing so far this week, but my feet are firmly on the ground. I haven't cured cancer or anything.

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.