Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.