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" Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it. "

" A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby. "

" The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats. "

" 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 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. "

" What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 was born a comic. "

" You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I think I have a mental nappy attitude. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "