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.

White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!

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 jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

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