America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

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

...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.