The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn't really explore and couldn't show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.