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

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

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

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country