Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

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.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

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.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

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