Richard Pryor — "I believe the children are our future. Unless we stop them now."

"I was in the joint for eleven days. Eleven days in the joint. I went in there a negro, I come out a nigger."

"My doctor told me I had to stop smoking. I said, 'Why? Am I gonna die?' He said, 'No, you're just gonna smell bad.'"

"But the material was deemed too controversial — one sketch had Pryor totally nude but with his genitalia blacked out — and the series was cancelled after just four episodes."

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

"I went to jail for a while. They said I resisted arrest. I didn't resist, I just didn't want to go."