When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.

I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.

The material comes from whenever you realize that you and someone else have something in common. So any conversation you've had more than once, anything you see happening to you that you see happening to a friend, you go, Hmmm, that's a situation I can make funny.

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous.

Hollywood's just not funny.

When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.