An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

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.

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

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

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

I'm as American as apple pie.