Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

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

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.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

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

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

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.