I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

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

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

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

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

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.