Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.

Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.