While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

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.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.