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.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.