My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it's sick. It's really demented.