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

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

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

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

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

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

If a man calls me a nigger, he is calling me something I am not. The nigger exists only in his own mind; therefore his mind is the nigger. I must feel sorry for such a man.