In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because he's a white man who said he would die for the cause, because they could take him, but they weren't going to take his grandchildren. That brother was beautiful.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

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