If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.

I would never teach a child of mine to be kind to a cop who would shoot you in the back of the head. I would never have that conversation because children don't hear what you mean, they hear what you say.

No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'