Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.

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

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.

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.