Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

I would never teach a child of mine to be kind to a cop who would shoot you in the back of the head. I would never have that conversation because children don't hear what you mean, they hear what you say.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.