"Mickey Mouse to a three-year-old is a..." - Quote by Robin Williams

“Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.”

“Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.”

“People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.”

“If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.”

“He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.”

“Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.”

“I started doing music when I was thirteen; I actually started writing my first rhymes.”

“(Talks about a school production) 'There was one solo; but it was a guy. It was this character called 'Freddy Fast Talk' and it was the bad guy. I didn't care, I was like I will dress up like a guy, I want to sing that song. And so I remembered we drew on eyebrows, and I had like a moustache,and we put all my hair up in this hat. So I dressed like a guy and sang the solo.”

“You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.”