When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

People keep telling me about the white race and the black race - and it really doesn't make sense. I played Miami, met a fellow two shades darker than me - and his name was Ginsberg! Took my place in two sit-in demonstrations - nobody knew the difference. The he tried for a third lunch counter and blew the whole bit ... asked for blintzes.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?