"Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being."
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"My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman."
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"My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star."
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"My father was the role model I looked up. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star."
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"My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career."
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"My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him."
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"Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend."
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"Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes."
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"My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him."
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"It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world."
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"It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man."
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"I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames."
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"Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God ."
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"I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it."
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"I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails."
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"My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas."
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"From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government."
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"My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function."
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"Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch."
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"[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising."
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