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All humor is rooted in pain.

Richard Pryor

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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
Autobiographer
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Journalist
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Peoria
Illinois
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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Everyone carries around his own monsters.
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I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.
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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 keep your head clear enough to think.
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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
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I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
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I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.
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I don't want them hip white people coming up to me and calling me no n - - or telling me n - - jokes. I don't like it.
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I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
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Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
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