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

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.

The free man is the man with no fears.

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

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.