"the colored folks rolled in the aisles, laughin' and laughin'. And Brother Bootsie was right in there laughin' and gi…"

"She was the teacher who lasciviously licked her thin lips each time she told our class that all black kids belonged i…"

"My first real job was as art editor of the People's Voice. [[w:Adam Clayton Powell Jr.|Adam [Clayton] Powell]], Charl…"

"The art of what we might call, loosely, cartoons…[has been] a source of pleasure which has remained and sustained me."

"I was right there in the middle of all of this action. I didn’t have to think up gags…The cartoons drew themselves ..…"

"With you, I, an American Negro, am deeply concerned about liberty of a man in Yugoslavia and about the rights of Jews…"

"We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud…"

"Every soldier who fought put on a uniform and gave up two, three, four years of his life. He worked, he fought, somet…"

"And what was the cost of this Jim Crow? Not merely that the precious words "America" and "freedom" became suspect in …"

"To really dig Brother Bootsie, his trials and tribulations, you’d have to see Harlem from the sidewalk. Everyone in H…"