You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

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.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

I chose to be an agitator. And there's one interesting thing about being an agitator - and I tell people - the next time you put your underwear in the washing machine, take the agitator out, and all you're going to end up with is some dirty, wet drawers.

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.