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

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

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

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.

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.

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.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.