America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

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.

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

It's cool to be healthy.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

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