Jews and blacks come from the same history.… We've just expressed our suffering differently as people. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complain; we just never thought of putting it to music.
—Jon Stewart
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed, it's called a depression.
—Jesse Jackson
If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.
—Bill Cosby
I still say black. I say it because… African American… doesn't make your life any easier. You don't see black people… saying, "Oh yeah, African American. Man, I'll tell ya, this beats the hell outta being black."… You don't see any of us going into Bank of America [saying], "Excuse me, I'm here to pick up my loan."… You were rejected for that loan last week."… "I was black then. See, I'm African American now. I'll just go in the vault and take what I need.
—Wanda Sykes