When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

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.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

The only thing I like about St. Louis is it has the best zoo in America, in Forest Park. Washington University is next door to the zoo. Animals get out, they're going to eat white people before they get to the ghetto!