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.

I would never teach a child of mine to be kind to a cop who would shoot you in the back of the head. I would never have that conversation because children don't hear what you mean, they hear what you say.

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!

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

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.

That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

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.