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 trap them.
From 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 a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.
People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.
Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.
I was born a comic.
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.
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