I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, 'Why am I so black?' And she said, 'Because I'm black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.'

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.