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

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

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

My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.