Paul Mooney may refer to:
Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.
Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.
What does America love more than one white male?
America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
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.
You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.
I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.
Arizona has always been anti-black.
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
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.
White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they made fun of everybody, especially black folks. Racial jokes were not new to them.
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.
People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.
I'm as American as apple pie.
There's no such thing as reverse racism.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
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.
I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.