Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

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.

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

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

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