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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.

Richard Pryor

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Richard Pryor
Age: 65 †
Born: 1940
Born: December 1
Died: 2005
Died: December 10
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Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
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