A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I’ll never know what it is to have a baby. – Paul Mooney
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it’s predestined. It’s gonna happen in spite of you. There’s nothing you can do about it. – Paul Mooney
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats. – Paul Mooney
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood. – Paul Mooney
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. – Paul Mooney
Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all. – Paul Mooney
If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy. – Paul Mooney
You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, ‘Your mother is a prostitute.’ It is not going to bother me, because I know my mother is a nun, she’s not a prostitute. – Paul Mooney
What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It’s self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like. – Paul Mooney
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race. – Paul Mooney
I’ve never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it’s a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self. – Paul Mooney
I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the ‘H’ word – ‘honkey.’ That’s what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara. – Paul Mooney
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. – Paul Mooney
People don’t want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. – Paul Mooney
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. – Paul Mooney
