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.

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

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.

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.

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.