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

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" 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're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored. "

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

" Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included. "

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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