Paul Mooney Quotes
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If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
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If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.
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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.
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The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time.
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No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.
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If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.
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People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.
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When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.
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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.
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People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.
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People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'
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You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.
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I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.
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People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.
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America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
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There's no such thing as reverse racism.
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A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat.
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Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.
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The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
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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.
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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.
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You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.
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When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.
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White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them.
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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.
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Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.
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A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.
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What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
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I'm as American as apple pie.
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Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.
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