Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.