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1940–2005 United States
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, film director, social critic, satirist, and writer. He made trenchant observations with a storytelling approach.
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There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.
On sex. Live at the Sunset Strip (1982)
I don't want to go through life as a Wonder Wheel murderer!
The Toy (1982)
I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes. Though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
Make sure the check you write to a charity doesn't pay for cruel experiments on animals. Your donation should help end suffering — not cause it.
I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!
On trying to find his roots. Live At The Sunset Strip (1982)
Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.
Why me? Ten million motherfuckers freebasing, and I'm the one who blows up!
Live at the Sunset Strip (1982)
I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.
I went to penitentiary one time, not me personally, but me and Gene went there for a movie. "Arizona State Penitentiary" Population: 80 percent black people. But there are no black people in Arizona, they have to bus motherfuckers in!
On prison. Live At the Sunset Strip (1982)
Sick of hearing this shit about me not talking... not true... good days, bad days... but I still am a talkin motherfucker!
Let me tell you what really happened... Every night before I go to bed, I have milk and cookies. One night I mixed some low-fat milk and some pasteurized, then I dipped my cookie in and the shit blew up.
Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life.
You gotta be cool when you're macho man, cuz you can't be sensitive and care about someone having a good time in bed, cuz that's too scary... When you don't use sensitivity when you're having sex, or share some of your soul, nothing gonna happen, because men really get afraid. Men really get scared in bed.
I'd like to die like my father died... My father died fucking. My father was 57 when he died. The woman was 18. My father came and went at the same time.
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