"A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style."

"I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God."

"Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes."

"At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to."

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes."

"I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality."

"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."

"There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true."