Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.
Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.
[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.
Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.
Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.
Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!