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" I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. "
Paul Mooney
Got
Survive
Smart
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" 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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Nothing
Control
Over
" 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
" I'm as American as apple pie. "
Paul Mooney
Apple
Apple Pie
Pie
" You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. "
Paul Mooney
Remember
You
Got
" 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
" People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.' "
Paul Mooney
Say
Me
Today
" I like comedy, I mean, in all forms. "
Paul Mooney
Forms
Mean
Like
" Arizona has always been anti-black. "
Paul Mooney
Always
Arizona
Been
" An audience can be like a pack of wolves. "
Paul Mooney
Audience
Pack
Like
" I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. "
Paul Mooney
Racism
America
Got
" 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.' "
Paul Mooney
Mad
Skin
Black
" White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. "
Paul Mooney
People
White
Acting
" 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
" People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money. "
Paul Mooney
Crazy
Down
Think
" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "
Paul Mooney
Future
Past
Happen
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Like
People
Down
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Know
Me
You
" I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara. "
Paul Mooney
About
Am
Concerned
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Her
She
Candy
" 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
" I was born a comic. "
Paul Mooney
I Was Born
Comic
Born
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Want
Create
Dangerous
" 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
" Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself. "
Paul Mooney
Respect
Hollywood
Even
" Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43. "
Paul Mooney
White
Listen
Black
" I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny. "
Paul Mooney
Know
Funny
You
" 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
" If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy. "
Paul Mooney
Hair
White
Your
" 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
" What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. "
Paul Mooney
Kinds
Too
Like