Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

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

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

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

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.

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.