A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

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

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

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.

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.