I have so much respect for what's funny.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

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

Every time you see a black romance it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

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

I'm an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you're going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.