Richard Pryor Quotes
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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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So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
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I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
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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 believe in divine forces and energies.
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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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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
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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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The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.
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Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
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There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
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But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
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Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.
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He's just always positive. He's always smiling and he's always trying.
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What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?
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A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.
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I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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Freebase? What's free about it?
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I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.
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What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
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I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.
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The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?
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Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."
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I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.