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

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

People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

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.

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

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

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

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

Humanity is a comic role.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

You drive me crazy!" "You were always crazy. I just highlight it.

Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

Laugh a lot. Laughter will make even the dreariest situations a whole lot more enjoyable.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.