I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.

Super-cali-fragalistic-expiali-docious, Docious-ali-expi-fragalistic-cali-super. Cancun...catch me in the room, eatin' grouper.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

It is important not to confuse race and religion.

Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit!