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“I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.”
-- Richard Pryor

#True Love #Play #One Liner
“A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Art #Lying #World
“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.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Thanksgiving #Believe #Struggle
“I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Funny #Growing Up #Kids
“Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Marriage #Funny Love #Love You
“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Atheist #Bullshit #People
“You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Tyrants #Records #Stuff
“When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Attitude #No Money
“There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Racism #Hypocrisy #Gone
“I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Home #Thinking #Wife
“I believe in divine forces and energies.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Believe #Energy #Divine
“I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Performers
“It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Struggle #White #Chance
“I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Jobs #Attitude #School
“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!”
-- Richard Pryor

#Funny #White #Zimbabwe
“What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Justice #Constitution #Owners
“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Beautiful #Nice #Struggle
“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.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Want #Too Much #Bitterness
“Everyone carries around his own monsters.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Monsters
“Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?”
-- Richard Pryor

#Lying #Believe #Eye
“There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Laughter #Laughing #Lines
“I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Gay #People #Black
“Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Woods #Quiet #Like You
“If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Money #Want #Eric
“There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Two # #Lasts
“Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Color #Skins #World
“I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!”
-- Richard Pryor

#Want #Wheels #Wonder
“When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Blue #Fire #Looks
“When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, Richard, what do you see? I said, I see all types of people. The voice said, But do you see any niggers? I said, No. It said, Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Voice #People #Causes
“I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.”
-- Richard Pryor

#Thinking #Dying #Way

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