You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

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.

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

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

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

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.