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.

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."

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.