“Movies don’t make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.”

The kids from the streets don’t want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don’t care if it’s ugly; they just want reality.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

The boys in the hood are always hard.

I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don’t even vote.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!

Nuthin’ can avoid this shot ’cause it’s hittin’ It’s so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Sometimes you have to listen to fools, they may have a point.

I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?