If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.

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

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.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.

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

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

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

Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

She gave me a false address, took off with my American Express, sunspot baby, sure had me way out guessed.

Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.