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.

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.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

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.

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.