My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

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

That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.