I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.