No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it.
The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.
I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!
The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.
Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.
Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.
My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'
I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.
Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.
You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!
Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.
I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.
You got to be careful of the company you keep.
Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.
If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid to do that. It's not like I'm doing heavy lifting up there. It's not like I'm solving the world's problems. It's like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people and it's cool.
