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

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

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.

The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

The free man is the man with no fears.