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

Arizona has always been anti-black.

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

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 got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.