All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

And perfect happiness? Man, that's a...the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.

I'm a southern gentleman.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

Doc Rivers been hoarse since birth

We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.

You are what you repeatedly do when things get hard.

I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

(I get to) kill all the white people... How great is that?

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

The people who pray together build together a better world

The lack of understanding does not hurt, as much as the lack of effort to understand does !

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds [when they meet me].

The preppy look has gone global- every corner of the world interprets it in a different way.