"All Humor Is Rooted In Pain."

"When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!"

"I was in the hospital, and I looked at my chart, and it said, 'Richard Pryor, 42 years old, male, black.' I said, 'Damn, they got me right on the chart!'"

"I live in racist America and I’m uneducated, yet a lot of people love me and like what I do, and I can make a living from it. You can’t do much better than that."

"My mama used to whip me so bad, I wished I'd never been born. And if I had a choice, I'd take death."