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" 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. "

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" Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all. "

" I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara. "

" I like comedy, I mean, in all forms. "

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

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

" I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. "

" I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know. "

" My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody. "

" People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money. "

" Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included. "

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

" I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood. "

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

" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "

" 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. "

" I'm as American as apple pie. "

" There's no such thing as reverse racism. "

" I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self. "

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

" You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute. "

" I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself. "

" There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful. "

" If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored. "

" There's always a message in my comedy. "

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

" I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends. "

" I think I have a mental nappy attitude. "

" Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes. "