Famous Richard Pryor Quotes
“What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.”
Source: Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences
Wrote in November 2005, criticizing a black-owned circus; as quoted in "Pryor Fought Animal Abuse" by Lisa Lange, in Albuquerque Journal (15 December 2005) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/206590625/
At the end of track 9 "Religion" on his 1971 comedy album "Craps (After Hours)"
Richard Pryor Quotes
“I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!”
On trying to find his roots. Live At The Sunset Strip (1982)
Criticizing charities like the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (Pryor suffered from multiple sclerosis) for their animal studies; as quoted in "Pryor Fought Animal Abuse" by Lisa Lange, in Albuquerque Journal (15 December 2005)
Post http://www.richardpryor.com/forums/msgs.cfm?msg=38560&forum=6 on US civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
Web-posts
"The time of his life", in The Guardian (7 June 2004) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/columns/laughingmatters/story/0,12231,1229891,00.html
"The time of his life", in The Guardian (7 June 2004)
At the start of a routine about his freebasing accident. Live At The Sunset Strip (1982) [album and movie]