Zitat des Tages von Paul Mooney:
An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.
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.
Arizona has always been anti-black.
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.
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.'
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
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.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.
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.
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.
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
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.
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.
I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.
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.
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
What does America love more than one white male?
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.
Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'
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.
Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.
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.