Paul Mooney Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Paul Mooney Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.
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I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.
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I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.
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When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
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I think I have a mental nappy attitude.
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I’m as American as apple pie.
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I’m passionate about what I do. I’d be naive to be passive.
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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.
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You got to remember that slavery’s very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
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Handshaking means, ‘I don’t have a weapon.’
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The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
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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 call them ‘graham crackers.’
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People think you’re crazy if you turn money down… people worship money.
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Hollywood doesn’t even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.
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Arizona has always been anti-black.
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My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It’s a weapon that’s never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.
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I was born a comic.
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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.
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If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy.
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A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I’ll never know what it is to have a baby.
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Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.
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I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
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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.
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There’s no such thing as reverse racism.
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People don’t want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.
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