You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. In the church in which I was raised you were supposed to bear witness to the truth. Now, later on, you…

The celebrity never sees himself. I have some idea what I'm doing on that stage; above all, I have some idea what sustains me on that stage. But the celebrity …

I knew Richard [Wright] and I loved him. [...] I was not attacking him; I was trying to clarify something for myself.

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in ever…

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

'I seem to be breaking balls or something.' (from 'The Need to Dance')