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!

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

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?

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

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.