The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. I think this is, in a weird way, part of the health care debate. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars.

The two best things you can do for a person is have sex or make them laugh.

Men lie the most, women tell the biggest lies... a man's lie is, "I'm at Tony house, I was at Kenny house!" A woman lie is like, "It's your baby!"

My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.