Use those brains that God put in your head.

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.

My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.

[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.

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