Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

The free man is the man with no fears.

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.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.