Paul Mooney

“Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.”

“My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.”

“Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.”

“There's always a message in my comedy.”

“We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them 'graham crackers.'”

“People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.”

“If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.”

“I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.”

“I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.”

“I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.”

“An audience can be like a pack of wolves.”

“I think I have a mental nappy attitude.”

“America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'”

“You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.”

“White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.”

“When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.”

“When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.”

“I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.”

“My grandmother was the best. She loved you for you. She loved me for me. She was old-school. They broke the mold with her. They don't make them like that any more.”

“Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.”