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

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

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.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.