Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

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.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

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

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?