Richard Pryor

I believe the children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

You know, you're not famous until you get shot.

I live in racist America and I’m uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can’t do much better than that.

I’m for anything that gets you through the night—be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I had a dog named ‘Stay.’ I’d say, ‘Come here, Stay!’ He’d just sit there.

Women can’t joke about sex. They can joke about love, but if they joke about sex, they’re whores.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now—relaxed! ‘Cause when I heard the police car, I knew they weren’t coming after me!

You know that crazy shit white people be doing? That’s why I don’t want to be white no more.

I freebased for the first time in 1980 and it was the most incredible feeling. For about eight seconds—then you wanna do it again.

Niggas are the most together people on the planet—we just don’t know it yet.

The first time I ever saw a vagina up close, I thought somebody had been skinned alive.

When you’re running from the police, you don’t have time to think about how fast you are; you just run.

I had a great life, but I fucked it up.

I’m not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

I went to Africa and I saw the real thing. I saw the real people. I saw the real culture. And I came back and I was a changed man.

I don't think there's any difference between black people and white people. We're all just people. We all bleed the same. We all cry the same. We all laugh the same.

I'm not a racist. I'm just a man who tells the truth.

I don't believe in God. I believe in myself. I believe in the power of the human spirit.

I don't believe in heaven. I don't believe in hell. I don't believe in an afterlife. I believe in this life. And I believe in making the most of it.

I don't believe in fate. I believe in choice. I believe in making your own choices, and living with the consequences.