In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

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.

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.