If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.
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.'
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'
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.
An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
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.
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.
Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.
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.
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.
