Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

The free man is the man with no fears.

In the South they don't mind how close I get, so long as I don't get too big. In the North they don't mind how big I get, so long as I don't get too close.

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.