Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires. . . We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. . . we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.
I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.
It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr. , esquire.
If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
You don't begin to live, until you've lost everything. . . I've lost everything three or four times. A perfect place to start.
Definitions get you into that time trap, and I'm very much more process-focused. Take Lucy, for example. Lucy is famous largely because she has almost a total skeleton. The more sophisticated we get with instruments, the more we can find out. Through CT scans of her skeleton, they now think she died falling out of a tree because of the way her bones are broken. If nineteenth and twentieth century technologies can retroactively transform our bodiment, what then do the technologies we now use do?