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 it real for his black self. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it. — 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 Image
People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
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 Image
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. — 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 them, I… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
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 Image
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out. — 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 understand? Everyone… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
