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Paul Mooney [1941-0] American

Rank: 101
Comedian

Paul Gladney, better known by the stage name Paul Mooney, is an American comedian, writer, social critic, television and film actor. He is best known for his appearances on Chappelle's Show and as a writer for the comedian Richard Pryor.

History, Attitude, Dreams, Future, Humor, Morning

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I'm as American as apple pie.		101
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.		102
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.	History	103
Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.		104
I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.		105
People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'		106
I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.	Morning	107
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.	Future	108
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.		109
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them 'graham crackers.'		110
People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.		111
A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.		112
I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.	History	113
People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.		114
Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.		115
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.		116
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.		117
I was born a comic.		118
I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.		119
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.		120
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'		121
What does America love more than one white male?		122
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.	Humor	123
Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all.		124
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.		125
Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.		126
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.	Dreams	201
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.		202
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.		203
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.		204
If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.		205
Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.		206
I think I have a mental nappy attitude.	Attitude	207
There's no such thing as reverse racism.		208
When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.		209
An audience can be like a pack of wolves.		210
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.		211
When you watch TV, I didn't know black people were that happy. I had no idea they were that happy. I'm trying to find them.		212
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form... I'm sure of it.		213
If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.		214
There's always a message in my comedy.		215
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.		216
I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.		217
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.		218
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.		219
Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.		220
You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.		221
I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends.		222
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.		223
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.		224
Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'		225
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.		226
My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.		301
Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.		302
I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.		303
I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.		304
Arizona has always been anti-black.		305
Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.		306

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