"Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong."

“Anybody who does not value what you have does not deserve your relationship.”

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”

“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”

“A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.”

“Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch television or go to the movies, nor will he eventually read Book-of-the-Month Club selections, because they are ludicrous and dull. As a young man, then, he will effectually be excluded from all of Madison Avenue and Hollywood and most of publishing, because what moves him or what he creates is quite irrelevant to what is going on: it is too fine. His father has brought him up as a dodo.”

“It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.”

Source : "Cedric The Entertainer Talks 'The Soul Man'". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 20, 2012.

“The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender”

“I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone”

Source : Sean Penn's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2009.