Richard Pryor Quotes

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• If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.
• When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, Richard, what do you see? I said, I see all types of people.…
• I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
• There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
• Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.
• Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the…
• When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know…
• Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
• I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
• I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have…
• I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back…
• I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I…
• I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst . . . In other words, I had a…
• I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
• There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.
• What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
• Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.
• The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay…
• All humor is rooted in pain.
• I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to…

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