What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

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

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

That's easy, to stand in a nightclub, where most of the people that come in, they came to see you.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.