I love my daughter, but there’s a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?
BERNIE MACWhen I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
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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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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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Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.
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I’m not a politician, I’m a comedian. I know my limitations.
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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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Why I was so intrigued with Red Skelton was because he was able to make you cry and laugh and the same time. That was power.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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I’ve always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there’s people used to get mad at me because I didn’t hang out and things like that. I’ve never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I’ve never been posse, and all that. I’m a quiet storm.
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I ain’t running for office. I ain’t running for nothing.
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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.
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I’m not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.
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Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
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I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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