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Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.'

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

I know how to be funny to black audiences.

There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude.

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

When you're a comedian, you're another race. You're friends with all these comedians who are white, black and brown. It's us against the world.

I want the white people to understand my people.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.