Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

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.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

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

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

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