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

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

" Arizona has always been anti-black. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was born a comic. "

" 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. "

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

" Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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