I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.