Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.
No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.
Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.
I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.
I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.