Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

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

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.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

I would never teach a child of mine to be kind to a cop who would shoot you in the back of the head. I would never have that conversation because children don't hear what you mean, they hear what you say.