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.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

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

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

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.