I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.

Life is lived on the edge.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.