Richard Pryor

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

I know that if I wasn't scared, something's wrong, because the thrill is what's scary.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.