When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

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

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.

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.

I would never teach a child of mine to be kind to a cop who would shoot you in the back of the head. I would never have that conversation because children don't hear what you mean, they hear what you say.

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.