- Apple
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them 'graham crackers.'
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
- Naive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born a comic.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a message in my comedy.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.
- Nov 07, 2020
Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have a mental nappy attitude.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020