People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

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.

Solitude helps you to see life the way it is.

In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism-- because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.

I just want my kid to not hate and to be a good human. That's what you try to do. You hope that they are the next evolution of your thing.

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

[Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.