Richard Pryor Quotes
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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. When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, "Richard, what do you see?" I said, I see all types of people." The voice said, "But do you see any niggers?" I said, "No." It said, "Do you know why? 'Cause there aren't any." When I was on vacation in Africa, I went
out in the country. Where you see some lions and shit. I'm talking about
real lions, not them kind you be fucking with in the zoo. Hey, lion,
motherfucker. I like makin' love myself, and I can make
love for about three minutes. I do about three minutes of serious fuckin',
then I need eight hours sleep! And a bowl of Wheaties! [as a TV preacher]
People are always asking me, "Reverend; if you need money so bad,
why don't you sell one of your houses, or cars or get rid of some of
that jewelry?" And I always reply, "Are you crazy!" "If you want some pussy, you'll talk all that shit with them. ..'Hey, yeah,, sure,, the cosmos.. sure..' White people go; Why you guys hold your things(penis)? Cause you done took every thing else motherfucka! When I hear 'yee-haw!', that scare the
shit outta me. Cuz I know what come next. Y'all remember? Y'all's
ancestors used to hang us for kicks? ..Muthafuckin on the weekend (hot!!
couldn't get no pussy..)? ..'Let's go down to the jail, get a couple of
them black ones and just string 'em up. ..yeehaww..' ..When I hear that,
shit crawl all up and down my neck. I'm doing this stand-up on the show
because the people at NBC said that well America don't know who you are
and you come out and they're scared. They just see black people and they
get nervous if they don't know who they are. Freebase? What's free about it? Fuckin' is good for you, Jack. Gettin' some pussy beats having a war. I went to the White House, met the president... We in trouble. Muthafucka looked at me like I owed him money. See, he'd been to the University of UCLA (sic). He hadn't been down to the U of Miss of Alabama. Cuz they got white folks down there that scare white folks. They have to keep them motherfuckers on a leash. Muthufuckin in a basement and shit.I started off, snorting little tiny pinches, said I know I ain't gonna get hooked, not on no coke, you can't get hooked, my friends been snorting 15 years, they ain't hooked. How's my mama? How's your mama? I will slap you in the mouth with my dick. I'm not addicted to cocaine... I just like the way it smells. I couldn't stop. I put the pipe down. It jumped back in my hand.And it's the people you meet after you been drunk, that remember shit you don't remember: "Hey Rich, don't you remember that time we went out, we got fucked up, and you stuck your arm up that elephant's ass? Don't you remember that? Elephant tightened his ass up and went walking down the street with you? Don't you remember that? Man, you looked like a turd with a hat on."
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