Latest Paul Mooney Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Paul Mooney

  Fun, White, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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

  Paul Mooney

  Awards, White, People

  Source: www.complex.com

• Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

  Paul Mooney

  Talking, Racism, Insanity

  Source: theaustintimes.com

• The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses in the world. They've always been hilarious since the beginning of time.

  Paul Mooney

  Political, Actors, World

  Source: theaustintimes.com

• People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

  Paul Mooney

  Real, Men, White Man

  Source: www.avclub.com

• A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat.

  Paul Mooney

  Goats, Stills

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Paul Mooney

  Past, Reality, Deals

  Source: www.avclub.com

• People do many things for many reasons. 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

  People, Sometimes, Reason

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

  Paul Mooney

  Grandmother, Thinking, Southern

  Source: www.avclub.com

• America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.

  Paul Mooney

  America, Soldier, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.

  Paul Mooney

  Majority, World, World History

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Paul Mooney

  People, Denial, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

• No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.

  Paul Mooney

  Animal, May, Gorillas

  Source: www.avclub.com