You know the stripper myth? Theres a stripper myth thats being perpetu — Chris Rock

"But the question remains the same: Can white people say "nigger"? And the answers the same: not really. But wait a minute, theres one exception. Theres one exception. Theres one instance where white people can say nigger. And Ima let it out tonight. Ima let it out here in Johannesburg. The one time that white people can say nigger. White people are like "this is what I paid for! Its a fuckin great night now!" The one time white people can say nigger: here it goes; listen closely. Cause I may never say this shit again. The one time white people can say nigger, OK: if its Christmas Eve, and its between 4:30 and 4:49 in the morning. If you white, and youre on your way to Toys R Us to get your kid the last Transformer doll, and right before you walk into Toys R Us, some black person runs up beside you, smacks you in the head with a brick, knocks you to the ground, stomps on your face--"take that, you cracker-ass motherfucker!" Riverdances on your head--"take that, you cracker-ass motherfucker!" Takes your money, pisses on you, and runs away--if you white, at that moment, you can say "Somebody stop that nigger!" Matter of fact, if you white and that happens to you, you can say nigger for a whole month! But you gotta walk around with the police report in your pocket. In case any black people catch you sayin nigger, the police report will act as your freedom papers. "Hey, I heard you saying nigger; let me see your fuckin papers. Gimme the papers; show me the papers!" [pretends to read a sheet] "Christmas Eve! 4:48! You just made it, motherfucker! Pissed on you! ...I hope they catch that nigger!"

"A black C student cant do shit with his life. A black C student cant be a manager at Burger King. Meanwhile, a white C student just happens to be the President of the United States."

"Do you know what the good side of crack is? If youre up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95."

"Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasnt even the star of his own Halloween special."

"I hope that Live Earth ends global warming the same way the Live Aid ended world poverty."

"The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like theyre not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, "If youd done that in the movie, youd have won an Oscar, girl."

"Gentlemen, no fighting please. This is, after all, a council of war. (p. 26)"

"I should say that when people talk about capitalism its a bit of a joke. Theres no such thing. No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject itself to the free market, free market discipline. Free markets are for others. Like, the Third World is the Third World because they had free markets rammed down their throat. Meanwhile, the enlightened states, England, the United States, others, resorted to massive state intervention to protect private power, and still do. Thats right up to the present. I mean, the Reagan administration for example was the most protectionist in post-war American history. Virtually the entire dynamic economy in the United States is based crucially on state initiative and intervention: computers, the internet, telecommunication, automation, pharmaceutical, you just name it. Run through it, and you find massive ripoffs of the public, meaning, a system in which under one guise or another the public pays the costs and takes the risks, and profit is privatized. Thats very remote from a free market. Free market is like what India had to suffer for a couple hundred years, and most of the rest of the Third World."

"The Dwarf sees farther than the Giant, when he has the Giants shoulders to mount on."

"If civilization has an opposite, it is war."

"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"

"I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art."