I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy, and I don't even have a worst enemy.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.