"We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy."

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Source : "Cedric The Entertainer Talks 'The Soul Man'". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 20, 2012.

Cedric the Entertainer

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“The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.”
“All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.”
“When I want to do something mindless to relax, I reinstall Windows 95.”

Source : "Geek Cheek". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.
“There are some people who don't believe in entertainment if you're a Christian artist. But I think it's a good thing for it to be entertainment at the same time.”
“Fear makes us feel our humanity.”
“Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.”
“We should not forget that when we limp away afflicted through the spirit, it is not to the factory gates or to the corporate steps we pilgrimage. Instead we go to the sea for its salt. We find shade under the sycamores on the great avenues. Or we go to the rivers where water tells us modestly of its own sickness.”

Source : Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.13, Faber & Faber
“To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.”

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