You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike..... So I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations as the next guy.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.