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Richard Pryor

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TA-NEHISI COATES People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorbl...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around...
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JAMAICA KINCAID If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or d...
DAVID E. KELLEY I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there...
IO TILLETT WRIGHT Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "wil...
BILL MAHER Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that...
JOE ROGAN The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of...
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ANN MARIE BUERKLE I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or ...
ACTION BRONSON I read that a lot of people think I'm gay. I don't care. My boyfriend and I are not really p...
MONICA RAYMUND Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mea...
LARRY KRAMER We need someone who will stand up and speak up and speak out for the people who need help, for peopl...
JOHN LEWIS Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure mo...
BETHANY MCLEAN I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.
ARTIE LANGE Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - ...
CARLI LLOYD I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.
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ANNE FRANK First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to...
CARLOS SANTANA I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea ...
SOPHIE OKONEDO Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate...
EDEN AHBEZ I don't think because I hang out with enough black people, I'm gonna turn black. What kind o...
KHLOE KARDASHIAN I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really...
DIANA ROSS I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's whi...
BIG BOI I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem...
HOLLIS STACY As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participatio...
ANGELA DAVIS I wanted to represent minorities in the respect of people who had been bullied in school or people w...
RUBY ROSE I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
ADAM GARCIA I know that, as a bisexual, sometimes people who are gay or lesbian look down upon the bisexual comm...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX Straight people say, 'You know you're just gay,' and gay people say, 'You know you&#...
ANDY DICK I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think...
FAITH EVANS I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
GEORGE THOROGOOD We need a brand as a party that says we're the party that are going to help working-class people...
TIM RYAN I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people tie...
DON KING Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their ev...
DAVID SHIELDS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
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PAM GRIER I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer...
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ELIZABETH WURTZEL I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.
AMY SEDARIS We're not sure if we've got two people out there or three people or a group of people or if it's jus...
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VAL MCDERMID I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be b...
DON LEMON What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a progr...
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VLADIMIR PUTIN I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing t...
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ERIC SCHLOSSER I'm not very happy. I'm frustrated with human beings. I'm the guy who just wants to smac...
DARON MALAKIAN Once people enjoy what I do, I don't mind if they call me a magician or an illusionist or a hypn...
KEITH BARRY I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people.
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JIM BUTCHER I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for...
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TAB HUNTER I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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MAGIC JOHNSON I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because I...
RICHARD SIMMONS I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first...
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EDEN AHBEZ I want to show people that I am that good friend and the person that a lot of people actually come t...
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SAOIRSE RONAN People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.
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RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH Gay people want the freedom to marry for the same reasons non-gay people do.
EVAN WOLFSON I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educ...
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RICHARD ENGEL Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL ...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS