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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. "

Paul Mooney

Done

Never

Need

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Tennessee

" I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. "

" I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. "

" 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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Just

Mind

" 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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Learned

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Morning

Love

" Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself. "

" There's no such thing as reverse racism. "

" The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats. "

" What does America love more than one white male? "

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Than

Love

" If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy. "

" People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money. "

" An audience can be like a pack of wolves. "

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Audience

Pack

" 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. "

" I like comedy, I mean, in all forms. "

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Forms

Mean

" 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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Know

You

" You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. "

" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "

" A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby. "

" People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.' "

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Say

Today

" I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. "

" 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. "

" 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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People

Down

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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. "