You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Think! It ain't illegal 'yet.'

I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.

Look both ways before you cross my mind.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

Funk 'em, just to see the look on their face.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

Why must I feel like that? Why must I chase the cat?

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

...but how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

But you can't start over Only a boy can start over You and me Why, we're all that's been

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

I'm proud to be from Philadelphia.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.