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" There's always a message in my comedy. "
Paul Mooney
Message
Comedy
Always
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" People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money. "
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" Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43. "
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" I'm as American as apple pie. "
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" I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know. "
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" You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included. "
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" America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.' "
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Name
Code
" People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. "
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" Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. "
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" Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.' "
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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. "
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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. "
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" 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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" If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy. "
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White
Your
" A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby. "
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Baby
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" 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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" Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes. "
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" 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. "
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" I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara. "
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" My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more. "
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" 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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