Quotes & Jokes by Richard Pryor / page 7

I'm going back out on the road. I love it, but I do need the money. It's a very safe high for me.

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.

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

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."

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

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.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!

I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

Let me tell you what really happened... Every night before I go to bed, I have milk and cookies. One night I mixed some low-fat milk and some pasteurized, then I dipped my cookie in and the shit blew up.

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.

I'm going through a humbling experience these days.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.