Quotes & Jokes by Richard Pryor / page 7

I don't understand what goes on some times, right, cuz here we are in this theater, we gettin along just fine. We go outside and the shit change.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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'm going through a humbling experience these days.

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.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

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 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.