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" You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. "
Paul Mooney
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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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" I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. "
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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. "
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" People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.' "
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" Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. "
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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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" Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included. "
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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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Double
Ego
" I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action. "
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Action
Want
Too Much
" If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored. "
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Then
" If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy. "
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Your
" 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 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
Me
Love
" You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. "
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You
Your Dreams
Dreams
" I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive. "
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Passionate
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Arrogance
Myself
White
" 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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Black
Woman
She
" There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful. "
Paul Mooney
Successful
Black
Stereotypes
" I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. "
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Got
Survive
Smart
" There's no such thing as reverse racism. "
Paul Mooney
Racism
Thing
Reverse
" 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. "
Paul Mooney
Me
Loved
Grandmother
" 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
Me
You
" I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. "
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Racism
America
Got
" Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.' "
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Means
Weapon
" 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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Success
World
Battle
" 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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Want
Create
Dangerous
" I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know. "
Paul Mooney
Freedom
Anything
Celebrate
" 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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Up
Just
Mind
" 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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Concerned
" I like comedy, I mean, in all forms. "
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