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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. "
Paul Mooney
Woman
Baby
Having A Baby
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" There's always a message in my comedy. "
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Comedy
Always
" You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. "
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You
Your Dreams
Dreams
" Arizona has always been anti-black. "
Paul Mooney
Always
Arizona
Been
" I like comedy, I mean, in all forms. "
Paul Mooney
Forms
Mean
Like
" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "
Paul Mooney
Future
Past
Happen
" I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. "
Paul Mooney
Racism
America
Got
" When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them. "
Paul Mooney
Black
Know
You
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Think
Black
Giving
" Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. "
Paul Mooney
He
Lie
Tennessee
" The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats. "
Paul Mooney
Them
Richard
Rest
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Nothing
Control
Over
" There's no such thing as reverse racism. "
Paul Mooney
Racism
Thing
Reverse
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Up
Just
Mind
" An audience can be like a pack of wolves. "
Paul Mooney
Audience
Pack
Like
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Hollywood
Black
Place
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Success
World
Battle
" I'm as American as apple pie. "
Paul Mooney
Apple
Apple Pie
Pie
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Me
Loved
Grandmother
" People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money. "
Paul Mooney
Crazy
Down
Think
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Arrogance
Myself
White
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Morning
Me
Love
" There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful. "
Paul Mooney
Successful
Black
Stereotypes
" Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included. "
Paul Mooney
Comedians
Demons
Myself
" What does America love more than one white male? "
Paul Mooney
Than
Love
More
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Black
Woman
She
" I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself. "
Paul Mooney
Truth Is
Tomorrow
Truth
" People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.' "
Paul Mooney
Say
Me
Today
" America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.' "
Paul Mooney
Racial
Name
Code
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
America
Yourself
You
" If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy. "
Paul Mooney
Hair
White
Your