"Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nou…"

"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to …"

"To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives d…"

"Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn … The real answer to race problems in this country…"

"Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across."

"A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be…"

"Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all."

"I would warn against anyone marrying a person with more than a ten-year age difference. It almost never works. It is …"

"This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no …"

"I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I…"