If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.