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

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" I'm as American as apple pie. "

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" What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. "

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

" When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. "

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" White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I was born a comic. "

" 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. "

" I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me. "