"I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter."
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"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."
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"It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat."
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"But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus."
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"Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers."
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"There's nothing worse than being an aging young person."
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"I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety."
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"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."
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"What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?"
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"You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed."
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"If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'."
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"Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there."
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"The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?"
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"There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground."
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"Why get killed when you can run ... your ego will heal much faster than a broken jaw."
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"When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!"
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"When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, "I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any.""
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"There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last."
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"I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet."
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"I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!"
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