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

There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

You can only offend me if you mean something to me.

I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.

That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got asthma." "Robitussin." "I got cancer." "Robitussin." "I broke my leg." Daddy poured Robitussin on it. "Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone. The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone."

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.