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.

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

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

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

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 don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

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