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- Lady
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My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death.
- Children
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I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
- Dance
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It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
- Free
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You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
- Attitude
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You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.
- Dangerous
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Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
- History
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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
- Fast
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Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.
- Eyes
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If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
- Milk
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Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
- Morning
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When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.
- Like
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To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
- He
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When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'
- Healthy
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It's cool to be healthy.
- Certain Things
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