You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

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.

Honestly, he blamed Jace and Colt for that little nagging feeling in his heart that insisted something was missing. Was he lonely? Hell, he didn’t know.

I was really attracted to doing Game of Thrones because I thought the character of Meera was absolutely amazing.

Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out.

The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition—as making a spark requires two things struck together.

I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.

Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.