America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

I'm as American as apple pie.