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.

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

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

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

[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.

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