I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. – Richard Pryor
I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren’t coming after me! – Richard Pryor
There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace. – Richard Pryor
I know that if I wasn’t scared, something’s wrong, because the thrill is what’s scary. – Richard Pryor
I’m for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people. – Richard Pryor
Movies are movies, and I don’t think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense. – Richard Pryor
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals. – Richard Pryor
I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get. – Richard Pryor
The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work. – Richard Pryor
You work your butt off and somebody says you can’t have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. – Richard Pryor
The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we’re dead and gone. Even if it’s a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here – to another planet so they can mess that up too? – Richard Pryor
Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn’t make it. – Richard Pryor
