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.

People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

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.

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.

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.