The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.
The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?
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.