Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

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

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?