Quotes from Paul Mooney

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

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.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

Hillary Clinton could say she was a woman and running for president. And Sarah Palin could say she was a woman and running for vice-president. But Obama couldn't say, 'I'm black and I'm running for president.' It couldn't come out of his mouth. He couldn't say that because, if he did, he'd lose votes.

If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.

I'm as American as apple pie.

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

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.

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

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

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

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

I was born a comic.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

I read a lot of history. The passive Jews in Germany didn't survive. The smart ones got out.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

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.

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

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

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.'

I like comedy, I mean, in all forms.

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