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

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!

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