I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

The world is fed by greed.

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.

In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.