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.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

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

A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.