Paul Mooney

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them 'graham crackers.'

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.