Monday, December 12, 2005

richard pryor (1940-2005)

Richard Pryor describing his trip to Africa in 1982: Excerpt from Live on Sunset Strip
"I was sitting in the hotel lobby, right? And a voice says, 'What do you see? Look around.' And I looked around, and I saw people of all colors and shapes. And the voice said, 'Do you see any niggers?' I said no. 'You know why? Cause there aren't any. Cause I'd been there three weeks, and I hadn't said it. And it started making me cry, man. That's a devastating fucking word. That has nothing to do with us. We are from a place where they first started people."

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1 comment:

Abdul-Halim V. said...

It's not just a business.. it's a job.... and it doesn't pay very well...lol...