People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

There's always a message in my comedy.

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.