The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'