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

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

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

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.