I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Hope is the foundation for which all successful goals are built upon.

Each time we make a choice we are either moving toward freedom and prosperity or bondage and misery.

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

It makes more sense to find out where the middle- and long-term common ground lies.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.