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I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

Richard Pryor

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there.

Richard Pryor

Mother

Father

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

Richard Pryor

Dying

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

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.

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!

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

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People

Gay

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

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Friends

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.