A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.

To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.

In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.