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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.

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

Paul Mooney

If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney

Arizona has always been anti-black.

Paul Mooney

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

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.'

Paul Mooney

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

Paul Mooney

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

Paul Mooney

I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

Paul Mooney

I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Paul Mooney

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

Paul Mooney

What does America love more than one white male?

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney

Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.

Paul Mooney

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.

Paul Mooney