- Keith: Black parents and white parents are just different, no better, no worse. Like Poltergeist, little white girl gets trapped in the TV, the mom's all hysterics, crying, "Aahhh! Carolyn's in the TV! What are we gonna do?" You know if that had been a black mama, she would've been proud. She'd call her friends, "Girl, turn to channel two. My baby's on TV!"
- Keith: We've been broke since the day before forever. We get around being poor by putting things on layaway and we leave it there for a long time, don't we? I know brothers that still got bellbottoms on layaway. You ever leave something on layaway so long, you don't even recognize it? "Damn, when'd I get an 8-track tape player? It's paid for now."
- Keith: Black people and white people are just different, no better, no worse. You see a white guy in the unemployment line going, "$210 dollars a week? How the hell am I gonna live on $210 dollars a week?" They'll be a brother behind him, "$210 dollars a week? For nothing? Baby, get the kids, we done come up!"
- Keith: White people get to do things black people don't get to do. Elvis been dead fifteen years, people still see him. You never hear somebody say, "I just saw Marvin Gaye! He was at the mall. Well, you know, I heard it through the grapevine!"
- Will: I bet Sinbad's parents supported him when he wanted to be a comedian.
- Philip Banks: They named him Sinbad! He had two options: pirate or comic!