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

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

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

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

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.

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

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