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

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

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.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

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.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.