The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.
There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.
I don’t know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic.
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.
I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.
Don't break me up - I wouldn't offend any person, be they black, Asian or whatever.
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.
My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
