The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

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.

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.

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.