My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.