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

I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.

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

A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

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.

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.