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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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Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw.
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You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.
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No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
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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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I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.
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There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
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I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling.
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I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.
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What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
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I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.
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You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.
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Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.
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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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My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.
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But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.
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I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
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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 don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
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Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
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