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

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

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.