Top 58 Quotes by Paul Mooney

I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

I'm as American as apple pie.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.