Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.

I wanna grow up and be a critic.

It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.

You don't get to be old bein' no fool.