My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

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.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

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

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

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