When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

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.

My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.

There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

Just taking the time to look at children and understand them is what everyone needs.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul.

I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.