Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
BERNIE MACI 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.
More Bernie Mac Quotes
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that’s bigger than anything else.
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I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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Bernie Mac don’t sugarcoat.
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People like rumors. They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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My daughter was a beautiful child.
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When you’re offstage, that’s the footprint. That’s the man God’s gonna judge.
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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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I’m very much disciplined because I’m more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.
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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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Fear is not one of my attributes.
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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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I know doing movies is where I need to be. That’s where my audience wants to see me.
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