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.

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.

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

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

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

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

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.