Occupation: Comedian Birth: August 4, 1941
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….
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'.
An audience can be like a pack of wolves..
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem..
Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny..
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 Ob….
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..
People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to wor….
White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, es….
I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancak….
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..
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood an….
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action..
People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you.….
I'm as American as apple pie..
People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'.
Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it..
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..
You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal w….
What does America love more than one white male?.
Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'.