You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.