I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.