I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
If you`re Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that`s an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it`s gotta sting a little bit.
"I figured, let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone, stop a speeding car by using my bare feet as brakes." - on his abrupt departure from "Chappelle`s Show" (2003).
"I look at it like that word, `nigger`, used to be a word of oppression. But that when I say it, it feels more like an act of freedom. For me to be able to say that unapologetically on television."