In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?” Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.

Facts are subversive

I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies

We have trials to face because our Heavenly Father loves us. His purpose is to help us qualify for the blessing of living with Him and His Son, Jesus Christ, forever in glory and in families.

His love is what makes us live, love, sing, and praise forever.

Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

Man naturally yearns for novelty.

You want a showman, go see rock 'n' roll bands today. You want to have a shamanistic experience, get psychedelic, then you watch The Doors.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.