Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
Chris RockI'll probably pay more attention to the musicians in the pit than the stars because they're the closest you're going to get to normal people in the audience.
Chris RockSo, to say Obama is progress is saying that heโs the first black person that is qualified to be president. Thatโs not black progress. Thatโs white progress. Thereโs been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Letโs hope America keeps producing nicer white people.
Chris Rock