Jesus is what God looks like in sandals
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.
A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.
People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.
If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys--either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.
All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.
Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.