It seems like there's never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

I'm happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn't make things easier, but I'm so much better at handling them.

At the time, I was reading this Miles Davis book, and he was talking about coming to New York right after he was in high school. It kind of made me feel like, "Yeah." I didn't want to go to college; I wanted to do stand-up. And I figured, "What's the point of doing stand-up around DC? I'm always going to be under-appreciated there because I started there." I felt like I was strong enough and unique enough that I should give it a big leash to shine. New York was the best thing that ever happened to me as a comedian.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

No one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack.