When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

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.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

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