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

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.

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

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.

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them.