I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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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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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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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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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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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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’ve never been no superficial cat.
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I don’t ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.
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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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It was rough being dark. I got heat from my own people more than anyone else. I remember going to my mom and saying, ‘Why am I so black?’ And she said, ‘Because I’m black. You just gotta always work harder than the average bear.’
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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I’ve been in training for stardom.
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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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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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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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