Best 94 quotes of Tracy Morgan on MyQuotes

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.

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

As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.

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

Because Eddie [Murphy] came from where I come from, the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. People in the projects used to call me Fat Murphy.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

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.

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.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

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.

I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability.

I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

I don't even deal with politics. I just don't believe in them. I think politics are politricks. My whole thing is power to the people. I don't put my faith in any one man. I keep my faith in God. That's where I keep my faith.

I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that.

I don't need no stool and mike stand. I don't need all of that to be funny. I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

I don't really take the college tours and all that. Those are young people and I'm quite sure they're mature enough to understand, but they haven't seen or lived real life yet.

I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

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.

I give [Barack Obama] a 10 [on a scale of 1 to 10] because he's not God, and he inherited a couple of wars, and a financial mess.I want to see him curse somebody out on TV. You can't finesse a bull. He's gotta throw down. He's in the shark tank.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

I live life and I don't take it for granted.

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

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.

I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.

I'm not afraid to move away from funny. I'm not afraid of that.

I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his best, and that at some point down the road, he's going to get it right.

I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

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.

I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.

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.

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

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.