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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

Bernie Mac

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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Around Shoes South Stupid Voice
I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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Failing Sometimes Winning
You can’t change what happened. Just like you can’t change the future by worrying about it. You just have to keep moving.
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Like Moving Worry You
Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you’ve learned your lesson.
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Lesson Suffering Teacher
Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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Black Littles Satisfy Thinking
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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Breakfast Food Night Nine
The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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Comedy Issue Matter Politically
I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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Funny Mush Respect
I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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General Hate Mean Something Sports
America…Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch…My James Brown.
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Country Party Rap School Touch
Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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Son Success Way Winning
Shut up before I drop yo ass off at Koreatown. Now hold on, America, don’t start writing no letters. I’m just kidding. But am I lying?
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Country Lying Start Writing
My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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Comedy Hurt Pain Someone
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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Audience Comedy Thing
Comedy has been so good to me.
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Comedy Good One
You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.
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Cameras Comes Light Men Microphone

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.

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