Dave Chappelle Quotes

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  No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it.

  Dave Chappelle

  Kids, Phones, Hands

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• The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.

  Dave Chappelle

  Inspirational, Lines, Way

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  The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

  Dave Chappelle

  Inspirational, Be True To Yourself, Being True

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• I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

  Dave Chappelle

  Rights, Self, Support

  "Banned Harry Hill gag shows a shift in attitudes to both comedy and gender" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2016.

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  The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

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  Funny, Humor, Greatness

  "Inside the Actor's Studio", February 12, 2006.

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  You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

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  Overcoming, Able, Realizing

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• You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, People, Comedy

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• Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

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  Important, Inventory, What's Important

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• What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!

  Dave Chappelle

  Faces, Fingers

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• The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

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  World, Figures, Who You Are

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• Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.

  Dave Chappelle

  Hate, Opportunity, Order

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• Chivalry is dead. Women killed it.

  Dave Chappelle

  Chivalry

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• My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

  Dave Chappelle

  Father, Names, Ifs

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• The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick.

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  Funny, Strong, Crazy

  "Turning the Table on 'Actor's Studio's' James Lipton". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 6, 2006.

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• Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.

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  Funny, Humor, Rocks

  "Chappelle's Show". www.imdb.com. 2003 - 2006.

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• I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

  Dave Chappelle

  Way, Showing Up, Awful

  "Dave Chappelle: 'I Wasn't Crazy'" by Bootie Cosgrove-Mather, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.

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  People, Comedian, Earth

  "Dave Chappelle Is Back (This Time We're 100% Sure It's Maybe Totally for Real)". Interview with Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 12, 2014.

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• If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

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  Moving, People, Losing Yourself

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• Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

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  Funny, Jobs, Black

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• I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

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  Sometimes, Enjoy, My Own

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• You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

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  Meaningful, Destiny, Looks

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• I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally.

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  Long, People, Failing

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• You got to be careful of the company you keep.

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  Company You Keep, Be Careful, Careful

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• Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.

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  Strong, Crazy, Clothes

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• Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something. But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Giving

  "Dave Chappelle Knows 'There's Not Too Many People That Don't Think I'm Crazy'" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 11, 2014.

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