Moms Mabley quotes
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“LOVE is like Playing Checkers. You have to know which Man to MOVE.”
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“Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.”
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“[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.”
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“[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.”
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“Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!”
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“A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can”
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“Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one.”
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“The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.”
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“My husband was so ugly, he used to stand outside the doctor’s office and make people sick.”
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“It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.”
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“Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.”
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“Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.”
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“I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.”
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“Use those brains that God put in your head.”
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“If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?”
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“You know Moms has been accused of liking young men, and I'm guilty.”
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