American - Comedian | August 4, 1941 -
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.
Paul Mooney
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An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
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White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.
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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.
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Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
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You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
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I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
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I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.
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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.
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I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
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I was born a comic.
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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.
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