Richard Pryor — "I'm not a megalomaniac. I just want to rule the world."

"I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of dying. There's a difference."

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

"I got a lot of problems. But at least I'm not boring."

"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 don't think white people realize how racist they are. For instance, you ever notice how they look at you when you're in a white neighborhood? They look at you like you're lost. And you look at them …"