The free man is the man with no fears.

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

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.

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

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.