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" When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it. "

Tracy Morgan

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" My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me, he was still a rock star. "

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My Life

" I have a heart. I want people to see me with their heart and not their eyes. "

" I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not. "

" My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same. "

" You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic. "

" I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK? "

" If I make fun of somebody at my show, believe me, it's something we can all laugh at. "

" I'm a black man in America, so I'm going to be misunderstood. "

" I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that. "

" Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma. "

" It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it. "

" Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day. "

" I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets. "

" God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile. "

" I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy - laughter is universal, and I don't differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There's no reason why one person can't relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another. "

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Laughter

Happy

" Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow. "

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Motivation

Funny

" You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella. "

" We need to learn to laugh at ourselves because when you don't laugh, you cry. And I don't feel like crying. "

" I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles. "

" Most people don't know what's happening around them because they're just speeding through life. And before they know it, they're just old. So I just try to slow it down. "

" And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly. "

" I do comedy for real people. "

" I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards. "

" I'm no Jerry Seinfeld. I wasn't raised with some backyard with a creek and trees and all that. "

" Most creative thing I've ever done? Got somebody pregnant. "

" America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened. "

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Did

" What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me. "

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Love

Makeup

" My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy. "

" There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold. "