The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.
Parenting needs to come to the forefront.
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.
Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.