"I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'"

"To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status."

"The fundamental question is not what's wrong with black people, but what's wrong with America."

"You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it."

"We're beings toward death, we're featherless, two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That's u…"