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.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'

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.

White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them.

You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.