When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.

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

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.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

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.

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.