So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

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.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

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

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

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.