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

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.

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

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 would never teach a child of mine to be kind to a cop who would shoot you in the back of the head. I would never have that conversation because children don't hear what you mean, they hear what you say.

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.