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.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country