Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

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

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

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.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.