“If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, p...” — Carlos Mencia Quote

“If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.”

“One of the better moments in life is when you get your own car.”

“I was never one of those fat-victim people. I always have to address how much weight I lost, and people always realize then how fat I was.”

“I came out publicly as transgender and began hormone replacement therapy while in prison. When I was released, however, there was no quantifiable history of me existing as a transwoman. Credit and background checks automatically assumed I was committing fraud.”

“In all my fantasies, I always assumed I would get married and have six children along the way with the greatest of ease.”

“It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.”