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

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.

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.

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.

Don't let the poor choices you made negate the years you spent loving him.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

My cat's fully capable of speaking, but he says he's afraid of me turning it into a Kevin James vehicle.

I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.