Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

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

I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.