And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

The free man is the man with no fears.

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.