Comedy rules! Don`t let anybody tell you otherwise, and there are no rules in stand-up comedy, which I really like. You can do anything you want and you can say anything that comes to mind, just so long as it`s funny. If you ain`t funny then get the fuck off the stage, it`s that simple.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there`s something wrong.

[On his job as a boxing gym sparring partner]: I always had to fight the guys who looked like they just killed their parents.

I live in racist America and I`m uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can`t do much better than that.

It`s been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst. In other words, I had a life.