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" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "
Paul Mooney
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" I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. "
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" You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute. "
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" I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. "
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" 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. "
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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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" White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. "
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" I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know. "
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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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" Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.' "
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" I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. "
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