I'm as American as apple pie.

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

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.

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

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.