Paul Mooney famous quotes

03-24-2025

No wonder circus animals do what they do: They tortured them. And you know the only ones they can't control? It's the chimpanzees. You can't control them. That's why you never see a gorilla in a movie, because the gorilla may decide there'll be no filming.
-- Paul Mooney

#Animal #May #Gorillas
People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.
-- Paul Mooney

#People #Denial #Want
America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.
-- Paul Mooney

#America #Soldier #Looks
Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.
-- Paul Mooney

#World #Majority #World History
People do many things for many reasons. Sometimes, what you do you have no control over, because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.
-- Paul Mooney

#People #Sometimes #Reason
I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.
-- Paul Mooney

#Grandmother #Thinking #Southern
A goat's a goat. Whether you sautÃ© or barbeque it, it's still a goat.
-- Paul Mooney

#Goats #Stills
You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.
-- Paul Mooney

#Reality #Past #Deals
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.
-- Paul Mooney

#Real #Men #White
A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.
-- Paul Mooney

#Dirt #Brooms
America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.
-- Paul Mooney

#Rap #America #Police
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.
-- Paul Mooney

#Real #White #Mad
Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'
-- Paul Mooney

#Mean #Weapons
I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.
-- Paul Mooney

#Want #Too Much #Action
Hollywood doesn't even have respect for itself. Hollywood lies to itself.
-- Paul Mooney

#Lying #Hollywood
An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
-- Paul Mooney

#Packs Of Wolves #Packs #Audience
A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.
-- Paul Mooney

#Baby #Having A Baby
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race.'
-- Paul Mooney

#America #Race #Names
Arizona has always been anti-black.
-- Paul Mooney

#Black #Arizona
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.
-- Paul Mooney

#Morning #People #Black

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