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.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."

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.

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.