"Hip-Hop's last hope like Obi-Wan Kenobi Through your television I'm shining light like a train Comin out like earthworms when it rains, bringing it like the C.I.A. be bringing in crack cocaine bailing out of planes with the George Bush connections, I push Reflection like I'm selling izm, like a dealer building the system Supply and the demand it's all just capitalism Niggaz don't sell crack cause they like to see blacks smoke Niggaz sell crack cause they broke"

"Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold."

"Life is a beautiful struggle People search through the rubble for a suitable hussle Some people using their noodle Some people using their muscle Some people put it all together make it fit like a puzzle"

"Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils and these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot"

"Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither"

"Fuck the harder way, I'm doing it the smarter way"

"Spit bars you can't touch, like tits in strip bars, get scarred, I drop hits to hit hard"

"We commute through computers. Spirits stay mute while our ego spread rumors. We're survivalists turned to consumers"

"Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb"

"These niggas ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you're Independent, Democrat or Republican"

"The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back."

"The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be. (Somebody once said that I paint the kind of girls your mother would want you to marry.)"

"Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller."

"I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to."

"Gary LaCoste had about the most expressive face I ever painted, I guess. Just like an actor's. Very mobile. When he talked, he used all the facial muscles. And he had a great, wide mouth that I liked. When he smiled, it was just like the sun came out."

"The little man on the wedding cake."

"I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."

"I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway."

"I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development."

"I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches."

"If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me."

"He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle."

"Dear First Lady: I recently read your criticism of my family. I was deeply hurt. Heaven knows we're far from perfect and, if truth be known, maybe just a wee bit short of normal; but as Dr. Seuss says, "a person is a person". I try to teach my children Bart, Lisa, and even little Maggie, always to give somebody the benefit of the doubt and not talk badly about them, even if they're rich. It's hard to get them to understand this advice when the very First Lady in the country calls us not only dumb, but "the dumbest thing" she ever saw. Ma'am, if we're the dumbest thing you ever saw, Washington must be a good deal different than what they teach me at the current events group at the church. I always believed in my heart that we had a great deal in common. Each of us living our lives to serve an exceptional man. I hope there is some way out of this controversy. I thought, perhaps, it would be a good start to just speak my mind."

"The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions.... You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time."

"I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich."

"Avoid this crowd like the plague. And if they quote you, make damn sure they heard you."

"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?"

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they [the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome] all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

"For heaven's sake enjoy life. Don't cry over things that were or things that aren't. Enjoy what you have now to the fullest. In all honesty you really only have two choices; you can like what you do OR you can dislike it. I choose to like it and what fun I have had. The other choice is no fun and people do not want to be around a whiner. We can always find people who are worse off and we don't have to look far! Help them and forget self! I would certainly say, above all, seek God. He will come to you if you look. There is absolutely NO down side."

"Lonesome Rhodes"

"Bye Felicia"

"(Name of player) From way downtown...BANG!"

"Good night and good luck."

"You are a liar."

"You, sir . . ."

"As promised."

"I can read his lips, and he is not praying."

"There has been a [name of player] sighting."

"Lugnuts...nothing but lugnuts."

"Mister Dictionary has failed us yet again."

"A good craftsman doesn't blame his tools."

"Full extension!"

"I like Keith Olbermann. He has been the conscience of our nation in recent years...It's a news show, but he's relentless in his attacks on corruption."

"The party of "No""

"That woman is an idiot."

"Sister Sarah"

"Miss Bendy Straws"

"The Human Oil Slick"

"The Quitter"

"Pullin' a Palin"