A chaplain’s assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

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.

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.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

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

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

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

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

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.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

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

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.

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

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.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

The French complain of everything, and always.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

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.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

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.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

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.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating – is this the exact right mix? I think that’s – to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

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?

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

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

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

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

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

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

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

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

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

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

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

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

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

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

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.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

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