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

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

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

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

The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time.

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.

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.