I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

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

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

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.

There's always a message in my comedy.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.