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

The moment we've waited for has finally arrived,

We do not believe, had he been white, that he would be dead. And when we black folks say to America that we're not going to tolerate it, it's going to stop.

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

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.