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

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.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

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.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.