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"What I know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that God is with me. I know that. I know that He's always been with me. It is evident in everything I have endured—and the fact that I made it through with some sanity."

"…when I come to work here and every black person that comes to work here they go, 'Oh my God, it's heaven. Here we are. We're represented.' Where everybody's represented. LGBTQ's represented. Black, white, gay, straight, whatever. We're all represented, working hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm."

"(My mother) loved Madea…She told me whatever you do, don't stop playing this character. She loved Madea. My mother, even though we look alike, she was a much more beautiful version of this character for sure."

"My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model…And my mother who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through. ... I would spend more time at the laundromat and Lane Bryant than any young boy should. [In my writing] I'm speaking from the little boy who's at her apron, looking up at the world and seeing all that I'm seeing these women go through."

"Those audiences are my critics. They tell me right away! I learnt very early on how far I can go, what I can and can’t say on stage. They inspire the stories that I tell, and how I tell them. It has to be something that the core can relate to. And what I’m finding is that if you serve the core, it grows, and you find a whole new audience."

"That has never been heard of in the history of television. It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. So what takes most shows eight years to do, we do in a year"

"I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well."

"Children love their mothers. Especially with a boy child and his mother, there's a bond that's unbreakable. I love my mother to this day. One of the most painful things I ever had to do was bury her, realizing that even though I was her hero, I couldn't help her with this last thing. I couldn't help her get better. All I wanted was to give her everything she wanted. Everything my father didn't give her, everything she never had."

"I have to thank Eddie Murphy, 'cause after I saw him do the Klumps [in Nutty Professor II], I said, "I'm going to try my hand at a female character." It was the brilliance of Eddie Murphy. I need to write him a check. Say thank you"

"When you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery."

"My audience and the stories that I tell are African-American stories specific to a certain audience, specific to a certain group of people that I know, that I grew up, and we speak a language. Hollywood doesn't necessarily speak the language. A lot of critics don't speak that language. So, to them, it's like, 'What is this?"

"I think Brady keeps a lucky piece of bacon in his girdle."

"If your team is going to win, you need to play better than the other quarterback."

"I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do."

"Harry is a true musician. He has a massive amount of information that he's dealing with, so he is very comfortable wherever a song goes. Great music is like leaping off a cliff, but some musicians will only go to the precipice. Harry just jumps, which is why playing with him is very liberating."

"I was in such a state while I was recovering from this surgery and the pain medication that I was on sort of took all the inhibitions out that I may have had. I found that I was ordering things online; big boxes of stuff would arrive at my house."

"[When asked how he's keeping his 12-year marriage to wife Jill fresh] Hookers, drugs. We’re playing the field right now."

"I started making movies when I was 20. I started playing piano when I was about 3 years old, so I'm probably a musician first. But when I'm working on a movie, as an actor, I'm an actor - 100 percent. And when I'm on tour, I'm a musician 100 percent."

"New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate."

"Fuck ya'll with a sick dick semiautomatic no click click."

"Wayne's getting money like Damon & Keenan. Try and take it from me and I'm aiming and beaming. Banging and leaving. Stains on the cement."

"Money on my mind, Money money on my mental."

"Awaited on my turn to burn can I get a light? Little dog, bigger bite, Jackson Five, little Mike."

"Big money for the grill, so I'm never cheap talking."

"I don't even write. Pause, un-pause this. So keep your bitch ass lines, inside the margin."

"They cannot see me, they are like Stevie."

"Big stacks, my pockets on creatine."

"I'm so motherfucking high I could eat a star."

"Top peeled back like the skin of a potato."

"Seat way back listening to Anita Baker, Riding by myself smoking weed by the acre."

"Leave it to the flow we gettin' dough like a bakery, I don't really want to but these niggas makin' me, Put a motherfucker on ice like the Maple Leafs, That’s a hockey team and I ain’t on no hockey team"

"Ridin drop top in the winter with the heat on"

"Money gives me life like a man with a gavel."

"I’m strapped at home, strapped when I travel I pop my trunk and make these bitches spread like cattle."

"The judge is a bitch,the jury suck dick,I'm a east side Blood and I don't smoke that Crip."

"Carter in the office,Take notes when I'm talkin',Smooth as a cruise boat floats when I'm walkin'."

"I know the game is crazy. It's more crazy then it’s ever been. I'm married to that crazy bitch, call me Kevin Federline."

"The only time I'll wear Depends is when I'm 70 years old. That's when I can't hold my shit within so I shit on myself, 'cuz I'm so sick and tired of shittin' on everybody else."

"Un-fuckin-believable. Lil' Wayne's the president. Fuck 'em, fuck 'em, fuck 'em, even if they celibate!"

"Yo, money over bitches, my niggas trust my senses, and I will take on that shit as the Lord is my witness! And you all have witnessed, but I have not finished. So keep your mouth closed and let your eyes listen."

"Mel Gibson flow, Lethal Weapon, 'book 'em Danny!'"

"I'm running this, and I can jump the hurdles. I feel like I'm racing a bunch of little turtles. I keep a bandanna like the Ninja Turtles. I'm like a turtle when I sip the purple."

"Buck 60 on the dash, Imma to do two. Captain Crunch these niggas is Froot Loop. That's why your girl wanna fuck me and my group too. And Imma make her back it up like shoop shoop. I'm the Birdman Junior I gotta do Coups. I hop out that mother fucker hollering 'Soo Woo!'"

"All this ice got me feelin like a polar bear."

"Misunderstood ain’t got to be explained but you don’t understand me so let me explain, stood in the heat the flame the snow, please slow down hurricane, the wind blows my dreads swang, he had hair like wool like Wayne uhh, droppin ashes in da bible I shake them out and they fall on da rifle, scary hale Mary no tale fairy all really very extraordinary."

"Weezy F. Baby, the F is for forensics."

"From start to finish, the same Wayne, okay you doin yo thang, but thangs change."

"It's Young Money baby, we the fucking greatest, we done put them other niggas on a hiatus."

"Hollygrove shit I'm on my Hollygrove shit, lookin for a bad bitch I give her dinosaur dick."

"Back in this bitch but a lot more rich, on my poppa bear shit, need hot porridge."