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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.' "

" I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. "

" There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful. "

" 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. "

" I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara. "

" 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. "

" I was born a comic. "

" 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 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. "

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

" You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. "

" Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.' "

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

" 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. "