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 Copy Share Image
If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy. — Paul Mooney Hair 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
Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that. — Paul Mooney Academy 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… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats. — Paul Mooney Comedy Copy Share Image
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them.… — Paul Mooney Beverly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Mooney Can't change 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
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore.… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses… — Paul Mooney Actors Copy Share Image
People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they… — 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 Anglo saxon Copy Share Image
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it. — 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
America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners. — Paul Mooney America 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… — Paul Mooney Comedy Copy Share Image
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
I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and… — 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… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.' — Paul Mooney America 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
You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the… — Paul Mooney Animal Copy Share Image
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