When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

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.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.

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

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