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When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness.
Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.

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

You got to die of something because if you die of nothing, they won't pay your insurance.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

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.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

It's cool to be healthy.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

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

Truth is the baby of the world. It never gets old.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

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?

Dogs are great assets to candidates, and the feeling seems to be engendered that if a dog loves the candidate, he can't be all that bad.

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

A Klaner (KKK) is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

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

The NAACP is a wonderful organization ... But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

I was learning that just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

I never learned hate at home or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine
off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the
tanks to control you.

There's a God force inside of you that gives you a will to live.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up?

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

The free man is the man with no fears.

Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human ...

If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.