Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.
When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
