Richard Pryor Quotes
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Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.
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You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.
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When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
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I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
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I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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Everyone carries around his own monsters.
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Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.
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I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.
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When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.
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I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.
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There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
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Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
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Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
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I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.
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I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
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I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
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I believe in divine forces and energies.
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Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
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Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.
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I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
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Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.