Comedy Quotes by Paul Mooney

I was born a comic.

— Paul Mooney

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

— Paul Mooney

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

— Paul Mooney

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

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

— Paul Mooney

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

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

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

— Paul Mooney

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

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

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

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

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

— Paul Mooney

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

I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

— Paul Mooney