Quotes & Jokes by Richard Pryor / page 3

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

Fuckin' is good for you, Jack. Gettin' some pussy beats having a war.

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.

How do you 'accidentally' shoot a nigga in the chest six times? 'Well, my gun fell and just went crazy!'

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.

I couldn't stop. I put the pipe down. It jumped back in my hand.

I live in racist America and I'm uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can't do much better than that.

If you want some pussy, you'll talk all that shit with them. 'Hey, yeah, sure,, the cosmos.. sure..'

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

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.

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.

I had one girlfriend, she had one of them "recto-mies." You know, that's where they scoop the pussy out and leave the box it came in. We got along just fine. She didn't want nothin' from me, and I sure didn't want nothin' from her.