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There's always a message in my comedy.
— Paul Mooney
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.
— 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
Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.
— 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 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
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
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
Arizona has always been anti-black.
— Paul Mooney
I think I have a mental nappy attitude.
— Paul Mooney
People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.
— Paul Mooney
An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
— Paul Mooney
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.
— Paul Mooney
I'm as American as apple pie.
— Paul Mooney
I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.
— Paul Mooney
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.
— 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
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
— Paul Mooney
If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.
— 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
I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.
— Paul Mooney
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.
— Paul Mooney
I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.
— 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
Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'
— Paul Mooney
There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.
— 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
There's no such thing as reverse racism.
— Paul Mooney
A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.
— Paul Mooney
White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.
— Paul Mooney
Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.
— Paul Mooney
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
— Paul Mooney
I was born a comic.
— Paul Mooney
America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
— Paul Mooney
What does America love more than one white male?
— Paul Mooney