I think I have a mental nappy attitude.
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it...
People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'
My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.
I'm as American as apple pie.
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.
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.'
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.
I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.
There's no such thing as reverse racism.
Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.
When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.
An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.
When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them.
