You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
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Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? ‘Cause he had problems.
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I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
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I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
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That’s the whole key to anything: Don’t be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.
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