What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

Discrimination against nonwhites will not be tolerated. Discrimination against whites is fine-as long as the discrimination is done in the name of nondiscrimination.

With wine ideas flow, without ideas wine flows.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.

There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.

If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

I guess emotion really isn't necessary for me to go out and perform well.

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

You have a choice. It may not be a choice you like, but it is still a choice.

I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!