Bill Cosby

"Weve got to take the neighborhood back. Weve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. Its right around the corner. Its standing on the corner. It cant speak English. It doesnt want to speak English. I cant even talk the way these people talk. "Why you aint where you is go." I dont know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows its important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You cant land a plane with "why you aint…". You cant be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that theyre moving ahead on this? Well, they know theyre not, theyre just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when youre just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out."

"The weatherman is always right, Its his timing thats off."

"The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble."

"I know I didnt say anything, but Im asking your integrity that since I didnt wanna say anything, but I did answer you, in terms of I dont wanna say anything of what value will it have? ... And I would appreciate it if it was scuttled."

"People putting their clothes on backwards. Isnt that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isnt that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?"

"We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, "This is too difficult, too hard," he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable."

"We are formed by all kinds of strange or vague memories from childhood. That kind of understanding is needed to see that Cosby was involved in a symbiotic, push-pull thing with his wife, where he went out and did these awful things to assert his own independence. But for that, he required the women to be inert. He needed them to be dead! Cosby is actually a necrophiliac--a style that was popular in the late Victorian period in the nineteenth-century."

"If at first you dont succeed, youre about average."

"I am not interested in statistics that tell me things are not as bad as they seem. Things are horrible. I have met people crying about what is happening, but there is no solution yet. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening. I dont care what the statistics say."

"My wife and I have five children, and the reason we have five children is because we do not want six."

"My father walked to school 4 oclock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful."

"Carol Burnett put it best when she described labor pains. She said, "Take your bottom lip, and pull it over your head."