Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

My daughter was a beautiful child.

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