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

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" You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. "

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

" 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. "

" An audience can be like a pack of wolves. "

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

" 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 was born a comic. "

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

" What does America love more than one white male? "

" 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. "

" People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. "

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

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

" I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. "

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

" I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.' "

" I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. "

" Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself. "

" When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules. "

" I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike. "

" 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. "

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

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