Paul Mooney Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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

  Morning, People, Black

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• 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

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• What does America love more than one white male?

  Paul Mooney

  White, America, Males

  "CNN Talkback Live" with Bobbie Battista, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2001.

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• I'm as American as apple pie.

  Paul Mooney

  Apples, Pie, Apple Pie

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• I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

  Paul Mooney

  Real, White, Self

  Paul Mooney (2009). “Black Is the New White”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  People, Path, Traps

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• An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

  Paul Mooney

  Packs Of Wolves, Packs, Audience

  "Mooney's Memories: 'Black Is The New White'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 8, 2009.

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• I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

  Paul Mooney

  Want, Too Much, Action

  "Embracing Freedom: Juneteenth Celebrations". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 19, 2007.

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• 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

  Hollywood Films, Black, Unwritten

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

  Paul Mooney

  Majority, World, World History

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Paul Mooney

  Bored, Ifs

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• 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

  Blow, Mind, Nuclear

  Paul Mooney (2009). “Black Is the New White”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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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

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• 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

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

  Paul Mooney

  Kings, Copycats, Comedy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 15, 2007.

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• 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

  Real, Want, Mold

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 15, 2007.

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

  Paul Mooney

  Goats, Stills

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Mean, Self, Black

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• A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

  Paul Mooney

  Baby, Having A Baby, Knows

  "Mooney's Memories: 'Black Is The New White'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 8, 2009.

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

  Paul Mooney

  Dream, White, Harlem

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• You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother is a prostitute.' It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she's not a prostitute.

  Paul Mooney

  Mother, Come Up, Bother

  "CNN Talkback Live" with Bobbie Battista, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2001.

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• Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.

  Paul Mooney

  Lying, Hollywood

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• There's no such thing as reverse racism.

  Paul Mooney

  Racism, Reverse

  "CNN Talkback Live" with Bobbie Battista, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2001.

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• Arizona has always been anti-black.

  Paul Mooney

  Black, Arizona

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