I was born a comic.

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.'

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

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

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

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

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

People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.