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

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

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.