My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.