My Daughter Was A Beautiful Child.

You Can't Be A Doctor If You Don't Know The Entire Parts Of The Body.

I Was Good At Keeping My Mother From Crying.

You're Never Going To See Me Playing A Buffoon.

I Want To Have Fun. Life Ain't No Dress Rehearsal. I Want To Have Fun. I'm A Comedian; I Ain't No Politician. So Everything I Do Is With Humor, With Love.

I Became The Storyteller Of South Side Chicago. I Used An Old Kiwi Liquid Shoe Polish As A Microphone. I'd Go Around The House Interviewing Everybody, Telling Stupid Jokes, Doing Voices. I Mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., People On 'laugh-in,' Flip Wilson.