As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

In the ’50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

No one wants to see curvy women.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it’s like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can’t really speak on it, because I wasn’t there. I don’t feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.