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

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

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.