Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.
I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.
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.
You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.
Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.
[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.