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

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" I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. "

" Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. "

" If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" It's cool to be healthy. "

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

" We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. "

" People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave. "

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

" I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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