My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

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

Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

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.

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

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.

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

There are times when God draws us into the wilderness but He does so for a purpose and never with the intention that we make permanent camp there.

The time we are living in has its own conditions, peculiarities and standards

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years.... The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.

Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

People treat us the way we teach them to treat us.