Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

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.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.

How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.

Left me here to cry alone with a bottle of juice and pork chop bone.

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.

Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.