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.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.

They say if you don't have your health you ain't got nothing, but the truth is you ain't got nothing if you don't have no one to worry about your health.

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.