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.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

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.

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

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.