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

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

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.