To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

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.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

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 won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

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!