There was so much goodwill and I felt that energy, like, 'Yo, we happy you alive!' It wasn't like they were looking for laughter, no. 'We just happy you alive and you're here walking,' and that made it special for me. I just want to give it back through my sense of humor.

Tracy Morgan

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My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

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And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

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They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F* that -- when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s* down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining.

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Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.

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Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

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I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

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I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

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In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.

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The truth is if I had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight… I might have to try to love even more because I know of the difficulty that he would have in society.

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Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.

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I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.

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Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.

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If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

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Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. This is my only girl. So I don't care what it takes to protect her. You can call it what you want to call it. As long as you treat her the same way I treat her, like my princess, I don't mind.

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I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people.

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When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

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Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

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Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.

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