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" I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' "

Tommy Chong

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" You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it. "

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" Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. "

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Happens

" I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny. "

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" Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations. "

" Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band. "

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" My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. "

Tommy Chong

Beginning

Positive

" You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. "

" Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say. "

" When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. "

" People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh. "

" I'm as clean as a whistle. "

Tommy Chong

Clean

Whistle

" I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime. "

" Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me. "

" There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top. "

" Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back. "

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