- The word 'black' means 'a void', so I have never seen a black man. The word 'white' means 'lack of pigment', so I have never seen a white man either. There's only one race: the human race.
- Most people come to this world by stork. I came by Flamingo, and Duke Ellington delivered me.
- [2008 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution] I am colored, and I love it. I have a right to identify myself the way I do and if nobody likes it, what are they going to do? Kill my career?
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