Paul Mooney

I'm as American as apple pie.

— Paul Mooney

I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.

— Paul Mooney

Arizona has always been anti-black.

— Paul Mooney

I was born a comic.

— Paul Mooney

What does America love more than one white male?

— Paul Mooney

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

— Paul Mooney

Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

— Paul Mooney

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

— Paul Mooney

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

— Paul Mooney

A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat.

— Paul Mooney

I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends.

— Paul Mooney

Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.

— Paul Mooney

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.

— Paul Mooney

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

— Paul Mooney

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens…

— Paul Mooney

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

— Paul Mooney

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

— Paul Mooney

I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried…

— Paul Mooney

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

— Paul Mooney

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

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My…

— Paul Mooney

Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them.…

— Paul Mooney

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult…

— Paul Mooney

My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold…

— Paul Mooney

People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen…

— Paul Mooney

When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You…

— Paul Mooney

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

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

— Paul Mooney

I think I have a mental nappy attitude.

— Paul Mooney

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

— Paul Mooney

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

— Paul Mooney

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

— Paul Mooney

If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.

— Paul Mooney

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

— Paul Mooney

There's always a message in my comedy.

— Paul Mooney

A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.

— Paul Mooney

Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

— Paul Mooney

People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

— Paul Mooney

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

— Paul Mooney