Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

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.

I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

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

It's cool to be healthy.

A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.