I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.