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

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.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

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

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.

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