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

I wouldn't mind paying taxes... if I knew they were going to a friendly country

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

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.

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.