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

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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.

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

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

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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class.

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

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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.

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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.

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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

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

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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.

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And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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