52 Quotes by Nipsey Russell

I've always had the ability to manipulate words and communicate ideas and thoughts.

I use mother-in-law jokes, kid jokes, tax jokes - anything that works.

If the social evolution leads to jokes, I use them.

Word games are very easy for me.

I began working on stage in Atlanta when I was 3, doing a dance act with the Ragamuffins of Rhythm. Later I became a juvenile straight man for the older comedians. After that I worked out a stand-up act.

America is the only place in the world where you can work in an Arab home in a Scandinavian neighborhood and find a Puerto Rican baby eating matzo balls with chopsticks.

In all my years in show business - on stage, clubs and TV shows - my audience has been 75 percent white. In Las Vegas and Atlantic City I look out at the crowd and only see a few black faces here and there. But I can't allow myself to be conscious of the race factor. I couldn't perform my best under those conditions.

Jack Paar was my first TV patron saint.

My mother just liked the way the name Nipsey sounded.