What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke,… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny. — Paul Mooney Copy Share
People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. — Paul Mooney Copy Share
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. — Paul Mooney Copy Share
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I… — Paul Mooney Copy Share
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… — Paul Mooney Copy Share
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. — Paul Mooney Copy Share
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone… — Paul Mooney Copy Share
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… — Paul Mooney Copy Share
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… — Paul Mooney Copy Share
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. — Paul Mooney Copy Share
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. — Paul Mooney Copy Share
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… — Paul Mooney Copy Share
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. — Paul Mooney Copy Share
