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.

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

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.

White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them.

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

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.