If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

Audiences feel no hatred from me. Because I'm not bitter.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.