Black folks tell their kids they have to be twice as good as a white person? Well, if I tell a child of mine that, or that they have to be careful - that this is what a cop would do if you do this - they think something is wrong with them. I tell them death is better.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

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.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

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