I Didn't Want To Be Nobody, And

I'm Not Afraid To Take On Somebody Or Say Something That Somebody Will Find Offensive Because Unfortunately In Comedy, You Can't Say Anything Really Good Without Offending Somebody.

By The Time I Was 11, I Wanted To Be A Comedian. So All Those Years Later, I've Managed To Achieve My Dream As A Kid, And It Wasn't Easy. I'm On The [hollywood] Walk Of Fame And I'm One Of The 25 Most Influential Hispanics In America, According To Time Magazine. I Think My Duty Is To Go Back And Tell Kids, 'whatever Color You Are, Wherever You Come From, Anything And Everything Is Possible.' And I'm Living Proof.

Whoever Is My Relative, I Will Not Be Nice To Them.

So I Started To Relax And Would Work On My Act Eight Hours A Day, Sitting At A Desk Writing At My Grandmother's House, And I Would Put On Richard Pryor Live On Long Beach And Would Play It Like A Loop And Think And Write

You Know How Mexican Restaurants Always Have "border" In The Name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You Wouldn't Do That To Black People: Kunta's Kitchen Or Shackles. They Don't Do It To White People. You Don't See The Honkey Grill, The Cracker Barrel... Oh, Nevermind.