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

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.

The free man is the man with no fears.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.