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

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.