I want to really take chances. I want to be funny in a lot of different ways. I'd like to be great. I want to reach for greatness.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show . . . What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one. And they don't recognize comedy, and you don't see a lot of black people nominated, so why should I watch it?

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.