Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

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.

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

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.

The free man is the man with no fears.

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