Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

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.

You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.