Quotes & Jokes by Richard Pryor / page 8

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.

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

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

Slaves built all this shit down here.. Or carried the shit that built it.. (on New Orleans)

I'll kick this... if I have to, 'cuz I'm not giving up.

It used to be Rhodesia, before they killed all them white muthafuckas.

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

I'd like to die like my father died... My father died fucking. My father was 57 when he died. The woman was 18. My father came and went at the same time.

I remember white dudes used to come down to the whorehouse. “Do you have any girls who cover you with ice cream?... And little boys to lick it off?” He was the mayor.

I went to penitentiary one time, not me personally, but me and Gene went there for a movie. "Arizona State Penitentiary" Population: 80 percent black people. But there are no black people in Arizona, they have to bus motherfuckers in!