The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. 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.

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.‘

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

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.

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.

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.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

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?

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

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.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

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.

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

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

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

Hell is other people.

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

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

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.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

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

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

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

The French complain of everything, and always.

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.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

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

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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

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

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

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

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

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

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

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

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

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

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

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

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

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

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

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

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

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.