I chose to be an agitator. And there's one interesting thing about being an agitator - and I tell people - the next time you put your underwear in the washing machine, take the agitator out, and all you're going to end up with is some dirty, wet drawers.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

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

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

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.

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.

No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.