The free man is the man with no fears.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

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.

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.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.

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.